How can I get the minimum and the maximum element of a list in python

Question

If a have a list like:

l = [1,2,3,4,5]

and I want to have at the end

min = 1   
max = 5

WITHOUT

Answer 1

For finding max:

print reduce(lambda x,y: x if x>y else y, map(int,raw_input().split()))

For finding min:

print reduce(lambda x,y: x if x