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Ujjwal Mahajan
Ujjwal Mahajan

Reputation: 63

Cannot call max function on a list

I'm trying to compare sum of first and last element in a list, second to second last, and so on. The list has even number of numbers. But when I call the max() function on a list, it gives me an error. Help me

li = [12,31,51,72,93,11,132,151,172,144]
sum1 = []

for i in range(len(li)):
    sum1.append(li[i] + li[len(li)-1-i])
print(sum1)
print(max(sum1))

and the error is:

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-34-04d301659610> in <module>
      5     sum1.append(li[i] + li[len(li)-1-i])
      6 print(sum1)
----> 7 print(max(sum1))
      8 

TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

Upvotes: 0

Views: 401

Answers (1)

kederrac
kederrac

Reputation: 17322

it is possible that you have shadowed the built-function, you can use:

print(__builtin__.max(sum1))

in this way you will use the max function that you want

Upvotes: 1

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