Showing the max key:value Dictionaries inside a list

June 5, 2022

How to show the max key:value Dictionaries inside a list
the code shown below can only show the values.

ages = [{'Matt': 30, 'Katie': 29}, {'Nik': 31, 'Jack': 43,}, {'Alison': 32, 'Kevin': 38}]

max_age = int()

for dict in ages:
    if max(dict.values()) > max_age:
        max_age = max(dict.values())
ages = [{'Matt': 30, 'Katie': 29}, {'Nik': 31, 'Jack': 43,}, {'Alison': 32, 'Kevin': 38}]

max_age = int()

for dict in ages:
    if max(dict.values()) > max_age:
        max_age = max(dict.values())

print(max_age)

Is there any way to show the max key also with the value?

>Solution :

You can use max with key parameter:

ages = [{'Matt': 30, 'Katie': 29}, {'Nik': 31, 'Jack': 43}, {'Alison': 32, 'Kevin': 38}]

max_name, max_age = max((name_age for dct in ages for name_age in dct.items()), key=lambda x: x[1])
print(max_name) # Jack
print(max_age) # 43

Specifically, it first converts the list of dicts into a list of tuples:

print([name_age for dct in ages for name_age in dct.items()])
# [('Matt', 30), ('Katie', 29), ('Nik', 31), ('Jack', 43), ('Alison', 32), ('Kevin', 38)]

Then max(..., key=lambda x: x[1]) finds the maximum with respect to the second item of each tuple.