title: Finding Max value in a column of csv file PYTHON
body: <p>I'm fairly new to coding, and I'm stuck on a current project. I have a .csv file, and rather than use a spreadsheet, I'm trying to write a python program to find the maximum value of a specific column. So far I have the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import csv
  
  with open('american_colleges__universities_1993.csv', 'rU') as f:
      reader = csv.reader(f)
      answer = 0
      for column in reader :
          answer = 0
          for i in column[14]:
              if i&gt;answer:
                  answer = i
  print answer
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I keep getting something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>9
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that this is only returning the largest integer (which happens to be 9), when it should be returning something like 15,000. I suspect the program is only looking at each digit as its own value... How can I get it to look at the entire number in each entry?</p>
  
  <p>Sorry for the newb question. Thanks!</p>