Getting the maximum values of every column and storing those value to an array in python without pandas

I have a text file that looks like this:

12345
23451
11221
21219
11223
71231

I want to have an array of lengths (number_of_columns – 1) that will store the maximum values of each column respectively except for the last column.

So my output array for this above example will look something like: 7 3 4 5

I don’t want to use pandas here. I am unable to understand how to proceed.

>Solution :

Use:

with open(datafile) as infile:
    # convert each line to an iterable of ints
    rows = (map(int, line.strip()) for line in infile)
    
    # find the maximum per col, exclude the last one
    *res, _ = (max(col) for col in zip(*rows))
    print(res)

Output

[7, 3, 4, 5]

As an alternative:

with open(datafile) as infile:
    # convert each line to an iterable of ints exclude the last one
    rows = (map(int, line.strip()[:-1]) for line in infile)

    # find the maximum per col,
    res = [max(col) for col in zip(*rows)]
    print(res)