Get lowest number from list in Python

 In this blog, I will be showing you how to get the lowest number from a list. In Python, you can easily do this with just min, for example:

list=[1,10,20,4,0,2]
min(list)
#this will return 0

But I want to show you a way to get the lowest number yourself.

Code 

In the next code, you will see a function that receives a list of numbers and does the next steps:

1. Views if the list is not empty, if it is empty, you will print in the console a message.
2. Sets in the length variable, the length of the list of numbers
3. Sets in result the first element of the list
4. In a for loop, it goes through each number of list except the first one.
5. it compares the number selected in the loop with the number in the variable result
6. If the number in the variable i is lower, then that number is the new value of result and goes to the next loop
7. when the whole list was already checked, it returns the variable result.

def get_min_number(number_list):
    if(number_list):
        length=len(number_list)
        result=number_list[0]
        for i in range(0,length):
            if(result>number_list[i]):
                result=number_list[i]
        return result
    else:
        print('List is empty')

How to run this program

Save this code in a Python file (code1.py for example) and run it the Python shell. View the next image to see how to call the function and what it return.

How to run the program