Thank you for the advice everyone.
>
> The first thing to try is find every place where you update myMax, and
This was actually where I was going wrong. I was setting max but then
overwriting it with item. Then kept checking item only to return myMax.
I went looking for other solutions as I thought I must be well off the path in
the shrubs but I was actually close.
This is how I ended up. There may be better solutions but this works.
def maximum(listarg):
items = list(listarg)
myMax = items[0]
for item in items:
for i in items[items.index(item)+1:len(items)]:
if myMax < i:
myMax = i
else:
pass
return myMax
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(maximum([4,3,6,2,1,4]))
Cheers
Sayth
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