[SciPy-dev] max and argmax

[Robert Kern]

dmitrey wrote:
> hi all,
> in MATLAB
> [val ind] = max(arr)
> returns both max and index of the max element.
> 
> In Python I use
> ind = argmax(arr)
> val = arr(ind)
> is it possible to avoid 2 lines, i.e. somehow to replace by single one?

def matlablike_max(arr):
    ind = argmax(arr)
    return ind, arr[ind]

ind, val = matlablike_max(arr)

-- 
Robert Kern

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