Finding the index of the value which is the min or max in Python

Question

I\'ve got a structure of the form:

>>> items
[([[0, 1], [2, 20]], \'zz\', \'\'), ([[1, 3], [5, 29], [50, 500]], \'a\', \'b\')]

The

Answer 1

Yet another way to get the argmax is:

def argmax(lst):
    return max(range(len(lst)), key=lst.__getitem__)