Here is my code
def max_array_diff(line):
return max(line)
line = raw_input().split()
print max_array_diff(line)
print line
Here is the output I am getting
9
['1', '9', '2', '-7', '10', '4', '3']
I need my output to be 10. raw_input() is coming in as a string, I have converted it to a list and am trying to get the max value from it but it keeps returning 9 instead of 10. What am I doing wrong?
You should convert the input to integers after splitting them; otherwise you'd be doing string comparisons with max().
Change:
line = raw_input().split()
to:
line = map(int, raw_input().split())
Alternatively, you can specify int as the key function for max() so that comparisons would be made based on the integer values of the string inputs.
Change:
return max(line)
to:
return max(line, key=int)
You need to do integer compare instead of string compare:
def max_array_diff(line):
return max(line)
line = [int(x) for x in raw_input().split()]
print max_array_diff(line)
print line
Or another way is to do:
print(sorted(raw_input().split(),key=int))
To get the highest do:
print(sorted(raw_input().split(),key=int)[0])
To get Top 3:
print(sorted(raw_input().split(),key=int)[:3])
