Choosing the highest percentage from a list (Python3)

[lewdicrous]

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matchesWon1 = 0
matchesWon2 = 0
for y in range(1,2):
    infile = open("Team%d_Round%d.txt" %(x,y), "r")
    line = infile.readline()
    while line != "":
        scored = int((line.split()[1]))
        conceded = int((line.split()[2]))
        if scored > conceded:
            won = 1
        elif scored == conceded:
            won = 0
        elif scored < conceded:
            won = 0        
        scored = 0
        conceded = 0
        matchesWon1 += won
        line = infile.readline()
matchesWon1 = matchesWon1 / 4 * 100
for y in range(2,3):
    infile = open("Team%d_Round%d.txt" %(x,y), "r")
    line = infile.readline()
    while line != "":
        scored = int((line.split()[1]))
        conceded = int((line.split()[2]))
        if scored > conceded:
            won = 1
        elif scored == conceded:
            won = 0
        elif scored < conceded:
            won = 0        
        scored = 0
        conceded = 0
        matchesWon2 += won
        line = infile.readline()
matchesWon2 = matchesWon2 / 4 * 100
totalMatches = (matchesWon1 + matchesWon2)/2
outfile.write("%20.1f" %totalMatches)

Hey, I'm trying to identify the highest percentage from the 5 that I have and from that information I want to identify the winning team.

The code I used to produce those percentages is available above, the program runs and produced the percentages that I need, I just don't know how to sieve through the data to get the highest number of the bunch, I tried several iterations of the code above to do so, but non of them worked(I also deleted them so I no longer have them for any referencing).

 

Thank you

[straight_stewie]

2 minutes ago, lewdicrous said:

The code I used to produce those percentages is available above, the program runs and produced the percentages that I need, I just don't know how sieve through the data to get the highest number of the bunch, I tried several iterations of the code above to do so, but non of them worked(I also deleted them so I no longer have them for any referencing).

Keep this under your pillow: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

 

 

 

[lewdicrous]

Just now, straight_stewie said:

Keep this under your pillow: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

I already have a lot of things stacked under my pillow but thanks

[DtrollMC]

Storing your results in a collection, sorting the collection, getting the first/last entry.

 

Or, store a max variable (start it at 0), and every time you read a percentage, compare it to the max, if it is greater, it is the new max.