I have the list ['4', '07', '08', '2017', '364', '355673087875675'] and I would like a formula to return the highest value, which in this case would be '355673087875675' , I tried to use max() , but it did not work, I can not think of a simple solution for this problem, I'm thinking of using a classification algorithm but it would be too big the code, there must be some way to do that.
Returning only the highest value from a Python list
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asked by anonymous 24.11.2017 / 13:01
2 answers
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Use int as sort function for max function
>>> l = ['4', '07', '08', '2017', '364', '355673087875675']
>>> max(l, key=int)
'355673087875675'
24.11.2017 / 16:23
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Tem. Use the max function itself. The problem that did not work for your code is because you have a list of strings and want to evaluate them as integer values, so you need the conversion.
numbers = ['4', '07', '08', '2017', '364', '355673087875675']
print(max(int(number) for number in numbers)) # 355673087875675
See working at Ideone | Repl.it
That is, instead of applying max direct to the list, you need to apply it to a list whose all values have been properly converted to integer.
24.11.2017 / 13:05