While Exercise for Proof

Question

I can’t do this exercise, not with while or with gone. If you can make it available to me the way it’s done with While and For,.

3. Given a list of numbers, tell us the highest number on the list. Use the Len( ) function to find out the list size and the while repeat structure to scroll through the list.

Remembering that the program should be done exactly as requested in the exercise.

Code I managed to do, but super wrong:

lista = [0, 10, 20, 50, 80]
maior = lista[0]

while maior in lista < maior:
    print(maior)

Answer 1

Well, I won’t get into the merit of how hard you must have tried or not to do this.

Basically, you need to go through all the elements of the list and check which one is the largest. This can be done in several ways.

What I did in my code was to make the variable i received a valid index (from lista), that is, it starts in 0 and goes up to len(lista) - 1. And then check if the element in this index is larger than the largest saved so far (in the variable maior)

lista = [0, 10, 20, 50, 80]

maior = lista[0]
i = 0
while i < len(lista):
    if lista[i] > maior:
        maior = lista[i]
    i += 1

print('O maior é {}'.format(maior))

See working on repl.it.

It is possible to do this without using any loop, with the function max()

maior = max(lista)