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Python

Posted by Nicolas Sandller
Nicolas Sandller
5,643 Points

Found a better way of defining max_min function

Hey Kat,

First off: I love this course, I would love to see more of data science in the future. This is actually why I'm learning programming. And I really like how you teach.

Second, I think I have a better way of handling the min_max function:

#Max & Min
def find_max_min(data_sample, col=2):
    temp_list = list()
    for row in data_sample:
        temp_list.append(float(row[col]))
    return max(temp_list),min(temp_list)

and then catch the result in a tuple:

(max_price, min_price) = find_max_min(data_from_csv[1:])

you'll be creating a variable for each returned value from the function.

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Good idea, assuming you always want both the maximum and the minimum...

You could also just have a function that fetches the values in one column of the data sample and returns it as a list of floats. Then you would use Python's built-in functions to get the average, max, min, etc.