[mando414]

i have a program that will print out large amounts of numbers in separate groups, how can i get python to tell me which set of numbers is the largest, is there a built in type i can enter to display the size of what has been printed in the shell, for example one set of numbers is 2 4 5 6 7 11 23 45 67 and another is 1 3 5 7 9 13 14 16 17 19 23 24 27 34 36 28, obviously the second set has more numbers, but to loook through thousands of these would be crazy, i need to find the largest set of numbers

[captainhampton]

If this is a set you can use the

PySet_Size

(Documentation)

Or if the data is in another form, like a list say you could simply use the

len(list)

code.

[Simown]

To find the maximum of a list of numbers, you need the max function.

For example:

>>> max([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

5

>>> max([10, 13, 9, 11, 12])

13

You need to store the size of the list of numbers as you are going rather than attempting to read the numbers from the shell.

You could use a list:

#At the beginning of the code, outside the number processing function.
lengthOfNumberLists = []

# Put this at the end of processing a single list of numbers
# len(x) determines the length of a list 
lengthOfNumberLists.append(len(List1))

#Then to determine the longest list
max(lengthOfNumberList)

Hope this helps

This post has been edited by Simown: 01 September 2010 - 08:14 AM

[mando414]

thanx that was what i ended up using.....the max