python输出最大值和最小值,如何从Python中的行和列中查找最小值/最大值？

I was wondering how can I find minimum and maximum values from a dataset, which is basically a text file. It has 50 rows, 50 columns.

I know I can set up a control loop (for loop to be specific) to have it read each row and column, and determine the min/max values. But, I'm not sure how to do that.

I think the rows and columns need to be converted to list first and then I need to use the split() function. I tried setting something up as follows, but it doesn't seem to work:

for x in range(4,50): # using that range as an example

x.split()

max(4,50)

print x

New to Python. Please excuse my mistakes.

解决方案

Try something like this:

data = []

with open('data.txt') as f:

for line in f: # loop over the rows

fields = line.split() # parse the columns

rowdata = map(float, fields) # convert text to numbers

data.extend(rowdata) # accumulate the results

print 'Minimum:', min(data)

print 'Maximum:', max(data)

Note that split() takes an optional argument if you want to split on something other than whitespace (commas for example).