Python program to find the largest and smallest number in a list

Hello everybody, welcome back to programminginpython.com. Here in this post, I am going to discuss a Python program that finds out the smallest and largest number on the list.

Here we use 2 predefined functions min() and max() which check for the smallest and largest number in a list respectively.

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Program on GitHub

Task :

To find the largest and smallest number in a list.

Approach :

• Read the input number asking for the length of the list using input() or raw_input().
• Initialize an empty list lst = [].
• Read each number using a for loop.
• In the for loop append each item to the list, lst.append().
• Now we use a predefined function max() to find the largest element in a list.
• Similarly, we use another predefined function min() to find the smallest element in a list.

Program on GitHub

Program :

lst = []
num = int(input('How many numbers: '))

for n in range(num):
    numbers = int(input('Enter number '))
    lst.append(numbers)

print("Maximum element in the list is :", max(lst), "\nMinimum element in the list is :", min(lst))

Output :

Program on GitHub

That is for the post, here I have found the largest and the smallest element in a given list, using max() and min() built-in functions of the list which give us the maximum and minimum element from a given list.