On 2019-04-18 08:39, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
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
It's still overly complicated.

if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(maximum([4,3,6,2,1,4]))

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