Given a list ["run", "hop", "bop"]
, how do I get the index of the item “hop” in Python?
We can use Python’s list.index()
method to return the index of a given item:
mylist = ["run", "hop", "bop"] print(mylist.index("hop")) # will print 1
If the given item is not found in the list, a ValueError
will be raised. Therefore, we need to either wrap our function call in a try/except
block or first check whether the item is in the list.
mylist = ["run", "hop", "bop"] try: print(mylist.index("hop")) # will print 1 except ValueError: print('"hop" not present')
mylist = ["run", "hop", "bop"] if "hop" in mylist: print(mylist.index("hop")) # will print 1 else: print('"hop" not present')
list.index()
works by checking every element of the list, starting at the first one, until it finds a match. For long lists, this could take a long time. Fortunately, the method provides start
and end
arguments, which can be specified to limit the search to a portion of the list, speeding up the search in some instances.
If the specified item occurs multiple times, list.index()
will only return the index of the first occurrence. In some cases, this may be desirable. Otherwise, if you want to return the indexes of every occurrence, you can use a list comprehension:
mylist_extended = ["run", "hop", "bop", "hop"] indices = [index for index, element in enumerate(mylist_extended) if element == "hop"] print(indices) # will print [1, 3]
If the element is not present in mylistextended
, indices
will be an empty list.
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