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Coursera Python: Programming for everybody assignment 5.2

I have been taking Coursera's course, Programming for Everybody with Python. But one of the assignment 5.2 on week 7 got my attention.

The objective is to make the user enter some numbers and enter done, when he entered all the numbers he wanted. After that, the output should be the biggest number and smallest number he entered.

Here is the problem. If I enter a negative number it is not displayed. Let's say I enter: 32, 55,10, -2 76. The output should be 76 and -2. But what really happens is that 76 and 10 are printed out.

Do you guys have any idea why this happens?

Here is the code.

• variable-assignment

• 2 What do you think range(-2) does? –  José Sánchez Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 12:33
• 1 Why are you even looping over a range? –  TigerhawkT3 Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 12:38

3 Answers 3

Well,the issue is that why are you iterating over an int if it isnt a list? You can rather do it with out a loop:

• The continue isn't necessary, as the only other code in that loop is the elif block which already won't run if the if executes. –  TigerhawkT3 Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 12:55
• True,didnt see that. –  Taufiq Rahman Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 12:57

Well, this was my answer. Try this. Let me know what you don't understand.

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This code will work for your assignment

largest = None smallest = None while True: try: num = input("Enter a number: ") if num == "done": break # print (num)

print ("Maximum is", largest) print ("Minimum is", smallest)

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initiatorvaibhav / 5.2 Write a program that repeatedly prompts a user for integer numbers until the user enters 'done'. Once 'done' is entered, print out the largest and smallest of the numbers. If the user enters anything other than a valid number catch it with a try,

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An issue with Assignment 5.2 [Coursera Programming for Everybody]

Even if my code matches desired output, it shows the code is incorrect. I spent all day trying to fix the issue but failed. Could anyone please help me fix the issue?

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