On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:26 PM duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> On 01/09/18 18:11, moha...@gmail.com wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I m trying to run this small script to find the lowest of the given array
> > of numbers. The script works fine for various combination of inputs but
> > fails in a weird way for a particular set of inputs, can anyone point the
> > mistake in the script and the behavior.
> >
> > Script
> >
> > x = input ("Enter the numbers separated by space and press ENTER :")
> > x = x.split(" ")
> >
> > def checkmin(arr):
> > lowest = arr[0]
> > for count in range(0,len(arr),1):
> > if arr[count] < lowest :
> > lowest = arr[count]
> > else :
> > pass
> > print (lowest)
> > return lowest
> >
> > minimum = checkmin(x)
> > print ("Lowest : {0}".format (minimum))
> >
> >
> > Weird output is as below.
> >
> > ================== RESTART: C:\Users\mohan\Desktop\temp.py
> > ==================
> > Enter the numbers separated by space and press ENTER :5 90 63 82 59 24
> > 5
> > 5
> > 5
> > 5
> > 5
> > 24
> > Lowest : 24
> >
> > Regards
> > Mohan C
> >
>
>
> Compare,
>
> >>> min(5, 90, 63, 82, 59, 24)
> 5
> >>> min('5', '90', '63', '82', '59', '24')
> '24'
> >>>
>
> Duncan
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integers are not strings. Strings collate according to alphanumeric
sequence. So the 2 in 24 makes it less than the 5
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