Python - Find the greatest number in a set of numbers

Question

I'm wondering if there is any easy way or function to determine the greatest number in a set of numbers. I could just code it, as I only have three numbers, however it would make the code a lot less redundant if I could tell the greatest with a built in function or something.

Answer 1

What about max()

foo = [1,2,3]
print max(foo)

Answer 2

Use max()

>>> l = [1, 2, 5]
>>> max(l)
5
>>> 

Answer 3

You can use the inbuilt function max() with multiple arguments:

print max(1, 2, 3)

or a list:

list = [1, 2, 3]
print max(list)

or in fact anything iterable.