Efficient way to get the position info of the biggest item in a Python list
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6193498/pythonic-way-to-find-maximum-value-and-its-index-in-a-list">Pythonic way to find maximum value and its index in a list?</a>  </p>
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<p>Say, in list <code>[2, 3, 6, 9, 2, 3, 1, 5, 7]</code>, I want to get <code>3</code> (position of item <code>9</code>) as output.</p>

<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3584243/python-get-the-position-of-the-biggest-item-in-a-numpy-array">A similar question but for numpy array</a></p>

<p>My intuition is to build a tuple, and sort the tuple, and get the biggest item's position. I believe there are many better ways....</p>
