prac 2 ex1

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7

#retrive an array of numbers from the user
def get_numbers(number_of_numbers):
  numbers= []
  for x in xrange(0,number_of_numbers):
    numbers[x] = int(raw_input("Please enter a number>"))
  return numbers

#finds largest number from a list assuming that the numbers are posative
def find_max(numbers):
  max_value = -1
  max_name = -1
  for x in xrange(0,len(numbers)):
    if numbers[x] > max_value:
      max_value = numbers[x]
      max_name = x
  return max_name

def main():
    print "You need to enter three numbers:"
    numbers = get_numbers(3)
    max_number = number[find_max(numbers)]
    print "The largest of those three numbers was " , max_number

main()