Python Code Example: Smallest and Largest Number in List

  1. The first line of the code creates a list named myList and assigns it the values [4, 5, 3, 4, 1, 6, 3].
  2. The line print(min(myList)) calls the built-in min function, which takes a list (or any other iterable object) as an argument and returns the minimum value in the list. In this case, myList has 7 elements, and the minimum value is 1, so min(myList) returns the value 1.
  3. The line print(max(myList)) calls the built-in max function, which takes a list (or any other iterable object) as an argument and returns the maximum value in the list. In this case, myList has 7 elements, and the maximum value is 6, so max(myList) returns the value 6.
  4. The print function is then used to print the values returned by min(myList) and max(myList).

So, the code creates a list, and then uses the min and max functions to determine the minimum and maximum values in the list, respectively, and prints the results.

myList = [4, 5, 3, 4, 1, 6, 3]

print(min(myList))
print(max(myList))
Output
1
6