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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-262/#TASK1
+#
+# Task 1: Max Positive Negative
+# =============================
+#
+# You are given an array of integers, @ints.
+#
+# Write a script to return the maximum number of either positive or negative
+# integers in the given array.
+#
+## Example 1
+##
+## Input: @ints = (-3, 1, 2, -1, 3, -2, 4)
+## Output: 4
+##
+## Count of positive integers: 4
+## Count of negative integers: 3
+## Maximum of count of positive and negative integers: 4
+#
+## Example 2
+##
+## Input: @ints = (-1, -2, -3, 1)
+## Output: 3
+##
+## Count of positive integers: 1
+## Count of negative integers: 3
+## Maximum of count of positive and negative integers: 3
+#
+## Example 3
+##
+## Input: @ints = (1,2)
+## Output: 2
+##
+## Count of positive integers: 2
+## Count of negative integers: 0
+## Maximum of count of positive and negative integers: 2
+#
+############################################################
+##
+## discussion
+##
+############################################################
+#
+# Simply count the negatives and the positives, then return
+# the bigger of the two numbers.
+
+def max_positive_negative(ints: list) -> None:
+    print("Input: (", ", ".join(str(x) for x in ints), ")", sep="")
+    pos = 0
+    neg = 0
+    for num in ints:
+        if num < 0:
+            neg += 1
+        else:
+            pos += 1
+    result = pos if pos > neg else neg
+    print(f"Output: {result}")
+
+max_positive_negative([-3, 1, 2, -1, 3, -2, 4]);
+max_positive_negative([-1, -2, -3, 1]);
+max_positive_negative([1,2]);
+