a.index(max(a))

会告诉你列表a中值最大的元素的第一个实例的索引。

我无法重现@martineau引用的@SilentGhost-beating的表演。以下是我的比较结果:

=== maxelements.py ===

a = [32, 37, 28, 30, 37, 25, 27, 24, 35, 55, 23, 31, 55, 21, 40, 18, 50,
             35, 41, 49, 37, 19, 40, 41, 31]
b = range(10000)
c = range(10000 - 1, -1, -1)
d = b + c

def maxelements_s(seq): # @SilentGhost
    ''' Return list of position(s) of largest element '''
    m = max(seq)
    return [i for i, j in enumerate(seq) if j == m]

def maxelements_m(seq): # @martineau
    ''' Return list of position(s) of largest element '''
    max_indices = []
    if len(seq):
        max_val = seq[0]
        for i, val in ((i, val) for i, val in enumerate(seq) if val >= max_val):
            if val == max_val:
                max_indices.append(i)
            else:
                max_val = val
                max_indices = [i]
    return max_indices

def maxelements_j(seq): # @John Machin
    ''' Return list of position(s) of largest element '''
    if not seq: return []
    max_val = seq[0] if seq[0] >= seq[-1] else seq[-1]
    max_indices = []
    for i, val in enumerate(seq):
        if val < max_val: continue
        if val == max_val:
            max_indices.append(i)
        else:
            max_val = val
            max_indices = [i]
    return max_indices

在Windows XP SP3上运行Python 2.7的旧笔记本电脑的结果:

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me" "me.maxelements_s(me.a)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 6.88 usec per loop

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me" "me.maxelements_m(me.a)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 11.1 usec per loop

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me" "me.maxelements_j(me.a)"
100000 loops, best of 3: 8.51 usec per loop

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me;a100=me.a*100" "me.maxelements_s(a100)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 535 usec per loop

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me;a100=me.a*100" "me.maxelements_m(a100)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 558 usec per loop

>\python27\python -mtimeit -s"import maxelements as me;a100=me.a*100" "me.maxelements_j(a100)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 489 usec per loop

>>> max(enumerate([1,2,3,32,1,5,7,9]),key=lambda x: x[1])
>>> (3, 32)

类似的想法与列表理解，但没有枚举

m = max(a)
[i for i in range(len(a)) if a[i] == m]

你可以用不同的方法来做。

传统的方法是，

maxIndexList = list() #this list will store indices of maximum values
maximumValue = max(a) #get maximum value of the list
length = len(a)       #calculate length of the array

for i in range(length): #loop through 0 to length-1 (because, 0 based indexing)
    if a[i]==maximumValue: #if any value of list a is equal to maximum value then store its index to maxIndexList
        maxIndexList.append(i)

print(maxIndexList) #finally print the list

另一种不计算列表长度并将最大值存储到任何变量的方法是，

maxIndexList = list()
index = 0 #variable to store index
for i in a: #iterate through the list (actually iterating through the value of list, not index )
    if i==max(a): #max(a) returns a maximum value of list.
        maxIndexList.append(index) #store the index of maximum value
index = index+1 #increment the index

print(maxIndexList)

我们可以用python和聪明的方式来做!在一行中使用列表理解，

maxIndexList = [i for i,j in enumerate(a) if j==max(a)] #here,i=index and j = value of that index

我所有的代码都是Python 3的。

如果你想获取一个名为data的列表中最大n个数字的索引，你可以使用Pandas sort_values:

pd.Series(data).sort_values(ascending=False).index[0:n]