Question

I am working on a data structure list class in python. I would like to get the largest item in the list.

    inlist = self.data
    if inlist[0] > inlist[1]:
        largest = inlist[0]
    else:
        largest = inlist[1]

    for item in inlist[2]:
        if item > largest:
            largest = item
    return largest

With the above getting stuck at largest gets returns

<bound method ListData.largest2 of <list.ListData instance at 0x2b35602c3440>>

while the data

[2, 5]

Answer 1

You can use the build in max() function.

mylist = [2, 5]
mymax = max(mylist)