use of max function in python code example

Example 1: max value in python

# find largest item in the string
print(max("abcDEF")) 

# find largest item in the list
print(max([2, 1, 4, 3])) 

# find largest item in the tuple
print(max(("one", "two", "three"))) 
'two'

# find largest item in the dict
print(max({1: "one", 2: "two", 3: "three"})) 
3

# empty iterable causes ValueError
# print(max([])) 

# supressing the error with default value
print(max([], default=0))

Example 2: python max with custom function

nums = [1,2,3,1,1,3,3,4,4,3,5] #list
counts = collections.Counter(nums) # create a dict of counts
#using counts.get() fun as custom function 
return max(counts.keys(), key=counts.get)

Example 3: max func in python

max([2, 1, 4, 3])
#Returns 4 as it's the largest integer in the list