Beginner Python Help

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2016-03-18 00:04 -0700
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Subject	Beginner Python Help
From	Alan Gabriel <alanunny@gmail.com>

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Hey there,

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.

This is my code..

num=input("Enter list of numbers")
list1=(num.split())

maxim= (max(list1))
minim= (min(list1))

print(minim, maxim)



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?

Thanks for the help

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Beginner Python Help Alan Gabriel <alanunny@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 00:04 -0700
  Re: Beginner Python Help Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-18 03:20 -0400
    Re: Beginner Python Help Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-18 09:44 +0200
  Re: Beginner Python Help Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 08:23 +0100
  Re: Beginner Python Help Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-18 18:26 +1100
  Re: Beginner Python Help "Martin A. Brown" <martin@linux-ip.net> - 2016-03-18 00:50 -0700

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