Python exercise : Find and print max and min elements from given list

Python exercise 

Episode: 1 
Level: Beginner 

Find and print max and min elements from list L=[56, 12, 78, 14, 44, 85, 9] without using max() and min() functions. Use python 3 print command.

One obvious way to find min and max elements from any given list of integers is to use built in Python functions max() and min(). 

 L=[56, 12, 78, 14, 44, 85, 9]  
 print(max(L))  
 print(min(L))  

This gives 85 and 9.

But how can you solve this problem without using those functions?

Comment your solution.

Expand solution

You can simply sort the list and print first element to get min. To get max you reverse the list and again print the first element.

 # print min value  
 L.sort()  
 print(L[0])  
 # print max value  
 L.reverse()  
 print(L[0])  

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