newbie seeks advise.

[Erik Max Francis]

Gerhard Häring wrote:

> If you want to program a max() function yourself, you can convert the
> tuple to a list using list(data), then sorting it, then finding the
> largest element yourself.

Or just scan the list, keeping track of the largest element you've seen
so far.  When you're done, the largest one you've seen is the largest in
the list.  This has better performance than sorting.

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