Get Key Having Maximum Value In Python Dictionary

In this article, I’m going to share a scenario wherein we need to get a key from a Python dictionary, which is holding maximum value.

Usually we are required to get a key having maximum key from a dictionary, which, of course, most of us can do very easily. But when it comes to the other way round, it is not that straight forward.

I also found that this is one of the hottest questions these days for interviewers :)

To achieve the scenario of a dictionary key having maximum value, we can go with two different ways as mentioned below:

Method 1: Using itemgetter() 

import operator 
students = {'Shweta':25,'Andy':30,'Maddy':3}
v = max(students.items(),key=operator.itemgetter(1))[0]
print(v)

Method 2: Using lambda CODE

import operator 
students = {'Shweta':25,'Andy':30,'Maddy':3}
v = max(students.items(),key=lambda x:x[1])[0]
print(v)

You can use any of these methods and you will get the same output.

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