using index() on multidimensional lists

Question

For a one dimensional list, the index of an item is found as follows:

 a_list = [\'a\', \'b\', \'new\', \'mpilgrim\', \'new\']
 a_list.index(\'mpilgrim\')
         


        

Answer 1

For two dimensional list; you can iterate over rows and using .index function for looking for item:

def find(l, elem):
    for row, i in enumerate(l):
        try:
            column = i.index(elem)
        except ValueError:
            continue
        return row, column
    return -1

tl = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]

print(find(tl, 6)) # (1,2)
print(find(tl, 1)) # (0,0)
print(find(tl, 9)) # (2,2)
print(find(tl, 12)) # -1