Exercise: Determine Maximum of Two Numbers

See also

• Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)

• Datatypes (“Datatype Conversions”)

• The if Statement

Write a program that

• Takes two numbers from the commandline. Remember: commandline arguments can only be strings, so those have to be converted to numbers.

• Determines the maximum of the numbers.

• Outputs the maximum.

$ python maximum.py 3 4
4
$ python maximum.py 200 99
200