Min-Max sum
Given five positive integers, find the minimum and maximum values that can be calculated by summing exactly four of the five integers. Then print the respective minimum and maximum values as a single line of two space-separated long integers.
#!/bin/python
import sys
a,b,c,d,e = raw_input().strip().split(' ')
a,b,c,d,e = [int(a),int(b),int(c),int(d),int(e)]
l = [a,b,c,d,e]
#print l
sumMin = sys.maxint
sumMax = -sys.maxint
for idx in xrange(len(l)):
    sumMax = max(sumMax, reduce(lambda x,y:x+y, l) - l[idx])
    sumMin = min(sumMin, reduce(lambda x,y:x+y, l) - l[idx])
print sumMin,sumMaxLast updated
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