On 18 Mar 2016 08:05, "Alan Gabriel" <alanu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey there,
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> I just started out python and I was doing a activity where im trying to
find the max and min of a list of numbers i inputted.
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> This is my code..
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> num=input("Enter list of numbers")
> list1=(num.split())
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> maxim= (max(list1))
> minim= (min(list1))
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> print(minim, maxim)
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> So the problem is that when I enter numbers with an uneven amount of
digits (e.g. I enter 400 20 36 85 100) I do not get 400 as the maximum nor
20 as the minimum. What have I done wrong in the code?You're dealing with strings (text) and not integers. And when comparing strings, '1' is earlier than '2', thus '100' < '20'. To fix this, you can use a list comprehension: list1 = [int(i) for i in num] You also don't need (parentheses) around functions when assigning to variables: maxim = max(list1) minim = min(list1) (Also, list1 is not a good variable name. Try something that describes its contents.) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> Sent from my Galaxy S3. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
