From e79b13b5d2c7ad2d6587056797be4cf21539ee79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Esc <55601315+Luk-ESC@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:09:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] shorten code using max function

replaced the for loop with a call to max() using the key argument
---
 maths/abs_max.py | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maths/abs_max.py b/maths/abs_max.py
index 4a4b4d9ebca3..9646d550ec07 100644
--- a/maths/abs_max.py
+++ b/maths/abs_max.py
@@ -14,11 +14,7 @@ def abs_max(x: list[int]) -> int:
     """
     if len(x) == 0:
         raise ValueError("abs_max() arg is an empty sequence")
-    j = x[0]
-    for i in x:
-        if abs(i) > abs(j):
-            j = i
-    return j
+    return max(x, key=abs)
 
 
 def abs_max_sort(x: list[int]) -> int: