how to find the index of a particular element in a list in 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 sublist in list python

greeting = ['hello','my','name','is','bob','how','are','you','my','name','is']

def find_sub_list(sl,l):
    results=[]
    sll=len(sl)
    for ind in (i for i,e in enumerate(l) if e==sl[0]):
        if l[ind:ind+sll]==sl:
            results.append((ind,ind+sll-1))

    return results

print find_sub_list(['my','name','is'], greeting) 
# [(1, 3), (8, 10)]

Example 3: 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)