search element in list and narray

Python List index()
The index() method searches an element in the list and returns its index.
In simple terms, the index() method finds the given element in a list and returns its position.

If the same element is present more than once, the method returns the index of the first occurrence of the element.

for array
numpy.nonzero(a)[source]
Return the indices of the elements that are non-zero.

>>> t = array([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 8, 3, 8, 8])
>>> nonzero(t == 8)
(array([6, 8, 9]),)
>>> nonzero(t == 8)[0][0]
6