python all possible pairs of 2 list elements, and getting the index of that pair [duplicate]

And to complete the answer and stay in the example:

import itertools  

a = [1, 2, 3]
b = [4, 5, 6]
c = list(itertools.product(a, b))

idx = c.index((1,4))

But this will be the zero-based list index, so 0 instead of 1.