Sorting a dictionary and outputting the key which corresponds to the highest value?

Question

I am trying to output the name of the pet which corresponds to the highest value:

import operator
pets = {"Dog":3, "Cat":5, "Rabbit":0}
sorted_pets = sorted(pets.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse = True)
print (sorted_pets[0])

The code above outputs ['Cat', 5]. How can I change it so it just outputs Cat?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Possibly a more pythonic alternative:

>>> max(pets, key=pets.get)
'Cat'

Answer 2

sorted_pets[0][0]

Try this.This should do it.