maximum element?

[JCM]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at __geri.cc.fer.hr> wrote:
> What is the 'most pythonic' way of searching the largest element in a 
> list/tuple?

> My 'standard' idea is:

> max = list[0]   # or -infinity, or whatever...
> for i in list:
>      if i > max:
>          max = i

> While this is ok, I somehow 'feel' there could be a more concise 
> solution... :)

reduce(lambda x, y: (x, y)[x < y], list)

Sorry, couldn't resist.