maximum element?

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, Ivan Voras <ivoras at __geri.cc.fer.hr> wrote:

> What is the 'most pythonic' way of searching the largest element in a
> list/tuple?
>
> 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... :)

max(list)

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