Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Beginner Python Help
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:44:19 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <lf537roxmb0.fsf@ling.helsinki.fi>
References: <101edd27-17e1-497c-a60f-fa56b033563b@googlegroups.com> <mailman.303.1458285656.12893.python-list@python.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="305c68510616a2e7ac08bcd2ff1598bd"; logging-data="27853"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fF1HXuinEtXr9mw1sKHKHk+PfxFdYtIA="
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:bsB+SrA+NqzjYb2KB/kFul3RI+M= sha1:94ygbLTiETm7NskBIIAnkMWQDQw=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105187

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()))