Find the greatest number in a list of numbers

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Is there any easy way or function to determine the greatest number in a python list  I could just code it  as I only have three numbers  however it would make the code a lot less redundant if I could tell the greatest with a built in function or something

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What about max    highest   max 1  2  3     or max  1  2  3   for lists

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Use max     gt  gt  gt  l    1  2  5   gt  gt  gt  max l  5  gt  gt  gt

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Ask for number input first   int raw input  Please type a number      second   int raw input  Please type a number      third   int raw input  Please type a number      fourth   int raw input  Please type a number      fifth   int raw input  Please type a number      sixth   int raw input  Please type a number      seventh   int raw input  Please type a number      eighth   int raw input  Please type a number      ninth   int raw input  Please type a number      tenth   int raw input  Please type a number            create a list for variables sorted list    first  second  third  fourth  fifth  sixth  seventh                 eighth  ninth  tenth  odd numbers            filter list and add odd numbers to new list for value in sorted list      if value 2    0          odd numbers append value  print  The greatest odd number you typed was    max odd numbers

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max is a builtin function in python  which is used to get max value from a sequence  i e  list  tuple  set  etc     print max  9  7  12  5       prints 12

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You can use the inbuilt function max   with multiple arguments   print max 1  2  3    or a list   list    1  2  3  print max list    or in fact anything iterable

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This approach is without using max   function  a    1 2 3 4 6 7 99 88 999  max num   0 for i in a      if i  gt  max num          max num   i print max num   Also if you want to find the index of the resulting max  print a index max num     Direct approach by using function max    max   function returns the item with the highest value  or the item with the highest value in an iterable Example  when you have to find max on integers numbers a    1  5  3  9  print max a    gt  gt  9  Example  when you have string x   max  quot Mike quot    quot John quot    quot Vicky quot   print x   gt  gt  Vicky  It basically returns the name with the highest value  ordered alphabetically

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You can actually sort it   sorted l reverse True      l    1  2  3  sort sorted l reverse True  print sort    You get    3 2 1    But still if want to get the max do   print sort 0     You get   3   if second max   print sort 1     and so on

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