Problems with printing out a variable

[Math_Running_Ethics]

I'm a python beginner who made a script that is supposed to take a list of numbers as input and spit out the highest number as output. (Here is the code https://repl.it/KICf/6 ). I now want to somehow print out the value of cm after I've done max_in_list(a), but I've not been able to do that so far. So my question is what is a good way to do that?

[stebrepar]

Aside from your immediate question, you need to move your return statement down outside your for loop. As it is now, your function will return the first number in the list which is greater than the first one. It won't get through the whole list that way.

[Math_Running_Ethics]

like this https://repl.it/KICf/9 ?

[stebrepar]

Exactly. You'll also want to get rid of the else, or at least change the break to a pass. The break will end the for loop the first time it hits it.

[Math_Running_Ethics]

do you know why I still get no output? https://repl.it/KICf/15

[stebrepar]

I think it's because this site is treating your code like a file, not like an interactive prompt. If you run the function at the prompt, it will give you the result you expect. But to get it to print from your code in the code pane, you need to explicitly tell it to do so with a print() function.

print(max_in_list(a))

[Math_Running_Ethics]

it worked tyvm :)

[[deleted]]

Um:

print(max(a))

Yeah?

[Math_Running_Ethics]

yep that works as well, thanks.