Find highest and lowest number from the string of numbers

Question

I\'m trying to write a function that returns the highest and lowest number in a list.

def high_and_low(numbers):

    return max(numbers), min(numbers)

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Answer 1

In order to achieve your desired result you can call split() on the string you are passing in. This essentially creates a list() of your input string—which you can call the min() and max() functions on.

def high_and_low(numbers: str):
    """
    Given a string of characters, ignore and split on
    the space ' ' character and return the min(), max()

    :param numbers: input str of characters
    :return: the minimum and maximum *character* values as a tuple
    """
    return max(numbers.split(' ')), min(numbers.split(' '))

As others have pointed out you can also pass in a list of values you'd like to compare and can call the min and max functions on that directly.

def high_and_low_of_list(numbers: list):
    """
    Given a list of values, return the max() and 
    min()

    :param numbers: a list of values to be compared
    :return: the min() and max() *integer* values within the list as a tuple
    """
    return min(numbers), max(numbers)

Your original functions does technically work, however, it is comparing numerical values for each character and not just the integer values.