Answer to Question #248726 in Python for sai krishna

Question

you given a list of prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock o the i th day write a program to print the maximum profit by choosing a single day to buy a stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock if these is no profit that can be achieved return 0

INPUT

the input is a single line containing space seperated integers

OUTPUT

the output should be an integer

Explanation

in the example the given prices are 7 1 5 3 6 4

buying stocks on day two having price 1 and selling them on the fifth day having price 6 would give the maximum profit which is 6 - 1

so the output should be 5.

sample input 1

7 1 5 3 6 4

sample output 1

5

sample input 2

1 11 13 21 19

sample output 2

20

Answer 1

N = int(input("Enter number of days: "))   
a = list(map(int,input("\nEnter the prices: ").strip().split()))[:N] 
a.sort()
x=a[N-1]-a[0]
print(x)