get item and index python code example

Example 1: python index of element in list

# alphabets list
alphabets = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'g', 'l', 'i', 'u']

# index of 'i' in alphabets
index = alphabets.index('i')   # 2
print('The index of i:', index)

# 'i' after the 4th index is searched
index = alphabets.index('i', 4)   # 6
print('The index of i:', index)

# 'i' between 3rd and 5th index is searched
index = alphabets.index('i', 3, 5)   # Error!
print('The index of i:', index)

Example 2: find index of elem list python

# Find index position of first occurrence of 'Ok' in the list 
indexPos = listOfElems.index('Ok')
 
print('First index of element "Ok" in the list : ', indexPos)

Example 3: python get element by index

# To return the index of the first occurence of element x in lst
ind = lst.index(x)