Answers for "Write a Python program to get the largest number and the smallest number f from a list."

n-largest and n-smallest in list in python

import heapq

grades = [110, 25, 38, 49, 20, 95, 33, 87, 80, 90]

print(heapq.nlargest(3, grades))
print(heapq.nsmallest(4, grades))

[110, 95, 90]
[20, 25, 33, 38]

find the largest and smallest numbers in a list

thislist = [677,8765,8765,876,470,754,6784,56789,7658,]
thislist.sort()
print ("The smallest number is: " + str(thislist[0]))
print ("The largest number is: " + str(thislist[-1]))