Python | Program to find the position of minimum and maximum elements of a list

Program to find the position of min and max elements of a list in Python

# declare a list of Integers
list = [10, 1, 2, 20, 3, 20]

# min element's position/index
min = list.index (min(list))
# max element's position/index
max = list.index (max(list))

# printing the position/index of min and max elements
print "position of minimum element: ", min
print "position of maximum element: ", max

Output

    position of minimum element:  1
    position of maximum element:  3

Explanation:

• The minimum number of the list is 1 and it is at 1st position in the list. To get it’s index, we use list.index(min(list)) statement, min(list) returns 1 (as minimum element) and list.index(1) returns the index of 1 from the list. Hence, the position of minimum element is: 1
• The maximum number of the list if 20 and it is two times in the list, first occurrence of 20 is at 3rd position and the second occurrence of 20 is at 5th position. Statement max(list) returns the maximum element of the list, which is 20 and the statement list.index(20) returns the index/position of first matched element. Hence, the position of maximum element is: 3