How to find out which variable has the greatest value

python

Solution

You could test each one:

if A > B and A > C and A > D:

or you could just test against the maximum value of the other three:

if A > max(B, C, D):

but it appears what you really want is to figure out which player has the maximum value. You should store your player scores in a dictionary instead:

players = {'A': A, 'B': B, 'C': C, 'D': D}

Now it is much easier to find out who wins:

winner = max(players, key=players.get)
print(winner, 'wins')

This returns the key from `players` for which the value is the maximum. You could use `players` throughout your code rather than have separate variables everywhere.

To make it explicit: `A > B and C and D` won't ever work; boolean logic doesn't work like that; each expression is tested in isolation, so you get `A > B` must be true, and `C` must be true and `D` must be true. Values in Python are considered true if they are not an empty container, and not numeric 0; if these are all integer scores, `C` and `D` are true if they are not equal to `0`.

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