Answers for "how to get the max value of a list in python"

python index of max value in list

# any list
a = [1, 7, 3, 12, 5]

# index of minimum element
# if more than 1 minimum, 
# first index is returned
min_index = a.index(min(a))

# index of maximum element
max_index = a.index(max(a))

min and max number in list python

def Max_min(list_of_number):
    largest_number = 0
    smallest_number = 0
    for num in list_of_number:
        if num > largest_number:
            largest_number = num
        elif num < smallest_number:
            smallest_number = num
    return "Largest number ="+ str(largest_number) + "Smallest Number="+str(smallest_number)

max in a list python

li=[0,70,7,89]
max(li)
#gives the max value 89