>>> numbers = [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0], [0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0]
>>> map(max, numbers)
<map object at 0x0000018E8FA237F0>
>>> list(map(max, numbers)) # max numbers from each sublist
[1, 2, 2, 3, 4]
>>> max(map(max, numbers)) # max of those max-numbers
4
a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
print(max(a))
# 5