a = [['a', 20], ['b', 36], ['c', 1], ['d', 8], ['e', 55]]
How can I print out the minimum value or maximum value by using Python built-in functions like min() or max()?
The result would look like ['e' , 55] or 55.
for x in a:
if x[1].isdigit():
q = x[1]
print(q)
print(max(q))
If you know that is always at position 1 you can do:
>>> a = [['a',20], ['b',36], ['c',1], ['d',8], ['e' , 55]]
>>> min(a, key= lambda sublist: sublist[1])
['c', 1]
In short the key function needs to returns a value which "sorts" and then returns the entry at the start/end of this list. (in the background of course only the current highest/lowest value is kept)
maxhas an optionalkeyargument:max(a,key = lambda x:x[1])