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user3491814
user3491814

Reputation: 35

Find Max output of numbers

My problem is that I've got a for loop checking through a string and I want to find the max number in that string but for some reason it sometimes changes the max_ouput to a smaller number. for example if max_output = 254607 and the number its checking is 92186 it will make 92186 the new max_output even though it it not greater. Code I'm using:

    def max_power(data):
        max_output = 0
        lines = data.split('\n')

        for line in lines:
            digits=line.split(',')[-9]
            if digits > max_output:
            max_output = digits
    print max_output

This is the data set I'm working with: http://pastebin.com/1UpzeAgD

Upvotes: 1

Views: 95

Answers (1)

James Anderson
James Anderson

Reputation: 27486

It looks like you are comparing string "254607" with string "92186" string comaprision works character by character and will stop as soon as it decides "9" > "2".

Try

if int(digits) > int(max_output):

Just needed to int() both

Upvotes: 1

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