I apologize if this has already been discussed - funnily enough my googling did bring up a previous thread about it on this mailing list, but despite the promising subject line, seemed to mainly be concerned with whether python-list should its own FAQ...so I assume this has been asked many times before, but my apologies I cannot find the answer. Here is what I have:
def maxi(l): it -- Henry
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