don't get why my code doesn't work...?

Question

The assignment: Write a recursive function index_of_max(nums) that returns the index of the maximum value in the input list of numbers, leaving the original list unchanged.

Here's my code:
def index_of_max(nums):
	if nums == []:
		return "empty list"	#base case 1
	if len(nums) == 1:
		return 0	#base case 2
	else:
		x = nums[0]
		lst = nums[1:]
		if x > index_of_max(lst):
			return nums.index(x)
		else:
			return index_of_max(lst)

roger · Answer

try this
#include <stdio.h>
int getMax(int * n,int imx,int i){
if(!i)   return   imx;
if(n[i-1]> n[imx])
imx= i-1 ;
return getMax(n,imx,i-1);
}

int main(void){
int mx,imx;
int nelements;
int j[]={ 200,4,5,6,13,3 ,6,10,2,201};
nelements= sizeof j /sizeof *j;
imx=getMax(j,0,nelements);
printf("   %d %d&#92;n", imx,j[imx]);
return 0;
}

don't get why my code doesn't work...?

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