I wrote this code to solve a problem from a John Vuttag book:
Ask the user to input 10 integers, and then print the largest odd number that was entered. If no odd number was entered, it should print a message to that effect.
Can my code be optimized or made more concise? Any tips or errors found?
{
a = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
b = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
c = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
d = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
e = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
f = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
g = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
h = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
i = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
j = int (raw_input("enter num: "))
num_List = {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j }
mylist=[]
## Use for loop to search for odd numbers
for i in num_List:
if i&1 :
mylist.insert(0,i)
pass
elif i&1 is not True:
continue
if not mylist:
print 'no odd integers were entered'
else:
print max (mylist)
}