February 4, 2022

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The following code shows how to Find the Difference Between Minimum and Maximum Elements in a List in Python. As can be seen in the code, first we create a list with given values. After that, we create two variables min and max. Also, we assign the first element of the list in these two variables. Further, we update these variables in a loop that iterates over all elements of the list. Here, we check the conditions to find minimum, and maximum respectively in two different conditional statements. In other words, if any element is smaller than the value of min, it will be assigned to the variable min. Likewise, we update the variable max. Hence, when the loop completes the variables min and max contains the minimum and maximum values respectively. Finally, we compute the difference between these two values.

mylist=[7, 12, 90, 11, 55, 84, 5, 58, 377, 121, 69, 39, 29]
print('list elements: ')
for i in range(len(mylist)):
   print(mylist[i])


print('Finding minimum and maximum in the list...')
min=mylist[0]
max=mylist[0]
for i in range(len(mylist)):
   if min>mylist[i]:
     min=mylist[i]
   if max<mylist[i]:
     max=mylist[i]   
 
diff=max-min  
print('Minimum element: '+str(min))
print('Maximum element: '+str(max))
print('Difference between Minimum and maximum: '+str(diff))

Output

Find Difference Between Minimum and Maximum Elements in a List in Python

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