Function to determine list max without itertools

[Sayth Renshaw]

Thank you for the advice everyone.

> 
> The first thing to try is find every place where you update myMax, and

This was actually where I was going wrong. I was setting max but then overwriting it with item. Then kept checking item only to return myMax.

I went looking for other solutions as I thought I must be well off the path in the shrubs but I was actually close.

This is how I ended up. There may be better solutions but this works.

def maximum(listarg): 
    items = list(listarg) 
    myMax = items[0] 
    for item in items:
        for i in items[items.index(item)+1:len(items)]:
            if myMax < i:
                myMax = i
            else:
                pass
            
    return myMax
      
                
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(maximum([4,3,6,2,1,4]))


Cheers

Sayth