从具有多个元素的列表中返回最大值python

Question

I have a list that has 2 elements in each tuple, one element being a string(fileid) and the other being a int(amount of words)

('ca01', 715), ('ca02', 784), ('ca03', 690), ('ca04', 756), ('ca05', 625), ('ca06', 705)

I was wondering if there is a way to return both elements in the tuple based on the max value of the second element, for example here, the max value in this list is the second elements in the second tuple "784". However, I would like to return both elements "('ca02', 784)"

Answer 1

You can use max() function witht a proper key:

>>> lst = [('ca01', 715), ('ca02', 784), ('ca03', 690), ('ca04', 756), ('ca05', 625), ('ca06', 705)]
>>> 
>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> 
>>> max(lst, key=itemgetter(1))
('ca02', 784)