maximum element?
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
Thu Mar 4 16:13:34 EST 2004
Ivan Voras wrote:
> What is the 'most pythonic' way of searching the largest element in a
> list/tuple?
max(list)
> My 'standard' idea is:
>
> max = list[0] # or -infinity, or whatever...
> for i in list:
> if i > max:
> max = i
>
> While this is ok, I somehow 'feel' there could be a more concise
> solution... :)
Indeed. :-)
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Robert Kern
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