Using min, max, sum

Finding Minimum and Maximum Notice that min() and max() can take either a single collection (list, tuple, etc.) or multiple individual arguments. When comparing strings, they use alphabetical (lexicographic) order, where uppercase letters come before lowercase. This makes them useful for finding the first or last item when data is sorted alphabetically. The flexibility to accept either a collection or individual arguments makes these functions convenient in many contexts. These functions are extremely efficient because they only need to scan through the data once. Python does not sort the entire collection to find min or max - it just tracks the extreme value as it goes. For a million values, min() and max() are much faster than sorting and taking the first or last element. Summing Values