Getting key with maximum value in dictionary

Question

Hi im looking to return the key with the highest value, and if they all have the same value to return key less than the others. ie [('iris', 2), ('rose', 6)] should return rose and [('iris', 4), ('rose', 4)] should return iris .

I have already sorted the dictionary so iris would come before rose, but not sure how to return rose in situations where it is more than iris.

Edit: return sorted(dict), max(dict, key=lambda k: output[k])

gives: (['iris', 'rose'], 'rose') no matter if iris' value is higher than rose, how could I fix this

Answer 1

Use max function with key parameter. key is an anonymous function in this case:

max(a, key=lambda x: x[1])[0]