Python: get the position of the biggest item in an numpy array

Question

How can I get get the position of the biggest item in an numpy array?

Answer 1

The argmax() method should help.

Update

(After reading comment) I believe the argmax() method would work for multi dimensional arrays as well. The linked documentation gives an example of this:

>>> a = array([[10,50,30],[60,20,40]])
>>> maxindex = a.argmax()
>>> maxindex
3

Update 2

(Thanks to KennyTM's comment) You can use unravel_index(a.argmax(), a.shape) to get the index as a tuple:

>>> from numpy import unravel_index
>>> unravel_index(a.argmax(), a.shape)
(1, 0)