Write a function to find the second highest number from a list without using built-in functions.
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Find second highest number from list without using inbuilt functions
Sort the list in descending order
Return the second element of the sorted list
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numbers = [2, 4, 5, 1, 8, 10, 7] largest = numbers[0] slargest = -1 # let list contains all positive numbers for num in numbers[1:]: if num > largest: slargest, largest = largest, num elif slargest < ...read more
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l = [8,6,9,7]
for i in range(len(l)):
for j in range(i+1,len(l)):
if l[j]>l[i]:
temp = l[i]
l[i]=l[j]
l[j]= temp
print(l[1])
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