How to find the index of an item given a list containing it in Python?

Position of an element in a list (any sequence data type for that matter) is obtained by index() method. This method finds first instance of occurrence of given element.

>>> L1=[45, 32, 100, 10, 24, 56]
>>> L1.index(24)
4

Malhar Lathkar

Updated on: 20-Feb-2020

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