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Re: Beginner Python Help

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Terry Reedy writes:

> On 3/18/2016 3:04 AM, Alan Gabriel wrote:

...

>> list1=(num.split())
>
> list1 is a list of strings
>
>> maxim= (max(list1))
>> minim= (min(list1))
>
> min and max compare the strings as strings, lexicographically
>
>> print(minim, maxim)

...

> You failed to convert strings of digits to ints.  Try
>
> list1 = map(int, num.split)
>
> This will raise TypeError on strings that cannot be converted.

Written in a hurry? :)

Surely it'll raise something about a method not being iterable, and when
that is fixed, something about not being able to invent a minimum for an
empty sequence.

list1 = list(map(int, num.split()))

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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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