Question

find the second maximum in python

Answer 1

L=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

max=L[0];

max2=L[0];

for i in L:

    m=i;

    if(m>max):

        max2=max;

        max=m;

    else if(m>max2):

        max2=m;

    else:

        continue;

Answer 2

a list is given. say.   l
there is a function sort().   used as
                              l.sort()
then,the list will be sorted in increasing order.
then find the second element from last i.e.
                                l[-2].

Comments

how i will be incremented