Find and Print the Second Largest number from the Python List python code example

Example 1: program to find the largest of three numbers in python

# Python program to find the largest number among the three input numbers
# take three numbers from user
num1 = float(input("Enter first number: "))
num2 = float(input("Enter second number: "))
num3 = float(input("Enter third number: "))

if (num1 > num2) and (num1 > num3):
   largest = num1
elif (num2 > num1) and (num2 > num3):
   largest = num2
else:
   largest = num3

print("The largest number is",largest)

Example 2: how to find second maximum element of an array python

maximum1 = max(lst) 
maximum2 = max(lst, key = lambda x: min(lst)-1 if (x == maximum1) else x)