python - Finding the index of a field with its name using arcpy

I want to extract the index of a field with its name using arcpy. It seems what I have written is so dumb. Is there any simpler method with out using for-loop?

    import arcpy

    fieldList = arcpy.ListFields(self.address_ref_layer1)
    self.field_name = []

    for field in fieldList:
        self.field_name.append(field.name)
    #self.remove_pseudo_nodes()
    print self.field_name
    print self.field_name.index(u"NAMN1")

It could also be written:

    fieldList = arcpy.ListFields(self.address_ref_layer1
    name_index = [f.name for f in fieldList].index(u"NAMN1")

The ListFiled function returns list of field objects with many properties as well as name, but no function to return the index of the field which has a specific name?