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Re: Beginner Python Help

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On 18 Mar 2016 08:05, "Alan Gabriel" <alanunny@gmail.com> wrote:
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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?

You're dealing with strings (text) and not integers. And when comparing
strings, '1' is earlier than '2', thus '100' < '20'.

To fix this, you can use a list comprehension:

list1 = [int(i) for i in num]

You also don't need (parentheses) around functions when assigning to
variables:

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

(Also, list1 is not a good variable name. Try something that describes its
contents.)

-- 
Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
Sent from my Galaxy S3.

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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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