More than one way to skin a cat:
import operator
sort_key = operator.itemgetter(1)
sorted(inventory.items(),key=sort_key)[-1]
('oranges',525)
or...
inventory.items()
[('pears', 217), ('apples', 430), ('oranges', 525), ('bananas', 312)]
count_first = [(count,fruit) for fruit,count in inventory.items()]
count_first
[(217, 'pears'), (430, 'apples'), (525, 'oranges'), (312, 'bananas')]
max(count_first)
(525, 'oranges')
And then of course you could iterate over the dictionary setting up
variables that hold the highest fruit and count found so far.
On 6/13/07, Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
If I have a dictionary like:
inventory = {'apples': 430, 'bananas': 312, 'oranges': 525, 'pears': 217}
How can I get the item with the largest quantity? I tried:
max(inventory)
but got:
'pears'
What I would like to get is 'oranges', at least in this case.
Thanks,
Carlos
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