[Tutor] Help with Max Number and Min number script

[Bob Gailer]

On Sep 17, 2016 4:55 PM, "Sharon Wallace" <swallace61 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> Would you please help me with the last piece of this assignment?
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> This is my code:
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> largest = None
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> smallest = None
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> while True:
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>                 num = raw_input("Enter a number:  ")
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>                 if num == "done" : break
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>                 print num
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>                 try :
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>                                 num = int(num)
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>                 except :
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>                                 print "Invalid input"
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>                                 continue
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>                 if num > largest :

> comparing integers To None is not a good idea. Your earlier program had
it right when you tested for None and greater than /  less then.

Another way to tackle this is to initialize largest to some extremely large
negative value and I smallest to some extremely large positive value.

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Congratulations on persisting and making it this far.

>                                 largest = num
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>                 if num < smallest :
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>                                 smallest = num
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> print 'Maximum is', largest
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> print 'Minimum is', smallest
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