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())) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
