I am trying to find a specific element in my list and its not functioning right, idk why?-CodePudding

I want print out the position that an element is in, in the list

list = [A,B,C,D]
position=list.find("B")
print ("This is at "   position  " of the list")

CodePudding user response：

Find does not work for a list only a string. Use index instead, also position will need to be converted into a string to be able to print. USE THIS INSTEAD:

list = ["A","B","C","D"] # also add "" around each element
position=list.index("B") # does what find does but for a list
position = str(position) # this changes position to a string
print ("This is at "   position  " of the list")

CodePudding user response：

index method could be one of the options but it would only give the first occurrence. If there are multiple occurrences, then I would recommend something like this


value_list = ["A","B","C","D","A"]

occurances = [index for index, element in enumerate(value_list) if element == 'A']

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