How do you retrieve a position of a word from a list?

Question

I have a list and I need to retrieve the position of the word, so far I have, the word I want to print positions is sea

Sentence = [she , sells , sea , shells ,on , the, sea , shore]
print (sentence.find(sea))

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '16 at 18:23

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Use the index() function of lists:

Sentence = ["she" , "sells" , "sea" , "shells" ,"on" , "the", "sea" , "shore"]
print Sentence.index("sea")

The index of lists is zero-based, therefore the result is 2.

answered Jan 21 '16 at 18:23

jofel

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