[Ilugc] [PYTHON] sum of best two scores of three

  • From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (kenneth gonsalves)
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:07:29 +0530

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 10:59 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote:

a team of 3 people are playing. We need the sum of the best two
scores.

scores = [5,2,3]
scores.pop(scores.index(min(scores)))
2
sum(scores)
8

can this be done in one line? (first line which initialises the
variable
is not counted). 

solved:

scores = [5,2,3]
sum(sorted(scores)[1:3])
8

-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves


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