How do you find the second largest number from a list in Python?

AnswerBot
2y

Find the 2nd maximum number from a list.

  • Sort the list in descending order and return the second element.

  • Use a loop to iterate through the list and keep track of the two largest numbers.

  • Convert the lis...read more

Shubham Patel
6mo
works at
a = (2, 100, 9, 1048, 28, 79) b = sorted(a) print(b) c = b[-2] print(c)
John Sharon
1y
Hope this helps


def max(num:list):
    num.sort()
    return int(num[-2])

max_num=max([22, 67, 987, 231])
print(max_num)
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