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Question

Problem Statement

It's your friend Alan's marriage. As Alan wanted, he wants his best man to be the tallest guy in the group. So, he prepared a list of his friends' heights and has trusted you with the list. It so happened that Danny, the tallest guy in the group, is down with fever and supposedly won't be able to attend the function. So now, its up to you to select the second tallest guy for the status of the best man. To find a quick answer to this, you write a Python script. How would you go about that?

Input Format

A single line containing the heights of all friends in inches; separated by commas.

Constraints

1 <= height of all friends <= 200

Output Format

Print the height of the second tallest guy.

Evaluation Parameters

Sample Input:
142,321,78,32,112,98

Sample Output
142

My attempt

https://code.sololearn.com/cdvRx6nb669b/?ref=app

Answer 1

Hey buddy, there were quite some errors in your code. But, even without them your code would be incorrect as you can't even know if the array you entered is more than 2 elements big. In addition you used incorrect input format.(With the problem you posted there is no need for entering array size beforehand.)

But I believe this way is way more efficient, as it doesn't require going through the list twice:

https://code.sololearn.com/cjgo63wdCX23/?ref=app

Answer 2

Who came up with those sample numbers? Not only is the tallest guy in the sample input 8.15 meters tall, his height also exceeds the constraint by 121 inches. 😂

Answer 3

Yeah buddy 😊 ur absolutely right... 👍,,,, Nice explanation thank you ☺️❤️

Answer 4

https://www.sololearn.com/Content-Creation-Guidelines/

https://code.sololearn.com/Wv5gTHy1N6Ji/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1316935/?ref=app