Finding the index of an item in a list

Question

Given a list [\"foo\", \"bar\", \"baz\"] and an item in the list \"bar\", how do I get its index (1) in Python?

Answer 1

Python index() method throws an error if the item was not found. So instead you can make it similar to the indexOf() function of JavaScript which returns -1 if the item was not found:

try:
    index = array.index('search_keyword')
except ValueError:
    index = -1