Find the greatest number in a list of numbers

Is there any easy way or function to determine the greatest number in a python list? I could just code it, as I only have three numbers, however it would make the code a lot less redundant if I could tell the greatest with a built in function or something.

Solution 1:

What about max()

highest = max(1, 2, 3)  # or max([1, 2, 3]) for lists

Solution 2:

You can use the inbuilt function max() with multiple arguments:

print max(1, 2, 3)

or a list:

list = [1, 2, 3]
print max(list)

or in fact anything iterable.

Solution 3:

This approach is without using max() function

a = [1,2,3,4,6,7,99,88,999]
max_num = 0
for i in a:
    if i > max_num:
        max_num = i
print(max_num)

Also if you want to find the index of the resulting max,

print(a.index(max_num))

Direct approach by using function max()

max() function returns the item with the highest value, or the item with the highest value in an iterable

Example: when you have to find max on integers/numbers

a = (1, 5, 3, 9)
print(max(a))
>> 9

Example: when you have string

x = max("Mike", "John", "Vicky")
print(x)
>> Vicky

It basically returns the name with the highest value, ordered alphabetically.

Solution 4:

Use max()

>>> l = [1, 2, 5]
>>> max(l)
5
>>> 

Solution 5:

max is a builtin function in python, which is used to get max value from a sequence, i.e (list, tuple, set, etc..)

print(max([9, 7, 12, 5]))

# prints 12