 the elements up to, but not
including, the second index.</font><br />
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<h2><font color="black"><a name="htoc107">8.8</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Lists and functions</font></h2>
<font color="black">There are a number of built-in functions that can be used on lists
that allow you to quickly look through a list without
writing your own loops:
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&gt;&gt;&gt; nums = [3, 41, 12, 9, 74, 15]
&gt;&gt;&gt; print len(nums)
6
&gt;&gt;&gt; print max(nums)
74
&gt;&gt;