python program for maximum and minimum in a list code example

Example 1: 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)

Example 2: minimum in list python

c=[4, 10, 2, 57]

print(min(c))
# 2