On 2019-04-18, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: > On 4/18/19 4:35 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > >> This is where I have ended up. Without itertools and max its what I got >> currently. >> >> def maximum(listarg): >> myMax = listarg[0] >> for item in listarg: >> for i in listarg[listarg.index(item)+1:len(listarg)]: >> if myMax < i: >> myMax = i >> >> return myMax >> >> How would you simplify it? > > In English rather than Python, how do you find the maximum element > in a list?
Hint: "greater than" is transitive. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
