find index of max element in list python code example

Example 1: python find index of highest value in list

numbers = [5, 4, 7, 3, 9, 1, 2]
biggest_number = max(numbers)
print(numbers.index(biggest_number))

Example 2: python index of max value in list

# any list
a = [1, 7, 3, 12, 5]

# index of minimum element
# if more than 1 minimum, 
# first index is returned
min_index = a.index(min(a))

# index of maximum element
max_index = a.index(max(a))

Example 3: python how to return max num index

import numpy as np

x=[1,2,3,4,5]

max_index=np.argmax(x) 
# return the index of the maximun element
# max_index has the value 4

Example 4: max of list with index

a.index(max(a))

Example 5: index of maximum value in list python

[i for i, x in enumerate(l) if x == max(l)]

Example 6: # get the largest number in a list and print its indexes

numbers = 1,3,11,42,12,4001
highestnumber = -999
for i in numbers:
  if i > highestnumber:
    highestnumber = i
print(numbers.index(highestnumber))