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Anas Mostafa
Anas Mostafa

Reputation: 31

How to print largest number in a list which also has other elements next to it in the same string

I'm trying to write a code that takes in a list with objects and next to the object there is also a number. I want to print the object which has the largest number next to it. One idea is to look for the last value in the string by using the [-1], however I quickly realised that wouldnt work if the number was more than 1-digit. I have also written this code, however this just returns the last element in the list.

list_of_words = ["car 1", "telephone 3", "bottle 10", "laptop 8", "window 12", "headphones 5"]

def autocomplete_freq_words():
    for word in list_of_words:
        return max(list_of_words)

print(autocomplete_freq_words())

Basically, for list_of_words and I want print the word "window".

Upvotes: 0

Views: 53

Answers (2)

Vishal Singh
Vishal Singh

Reputation: 6234

You can use rsplit(maxsplit=1) to split on whitespace and select the last element as your comparison key from each list element.

print(
    max(list_of_words, key=lambda x: int(x.rsplit(maxsplit=1)[-1]))
)

Output:

window 12

Upvotes: 3

djangoliv
djangoliv

Reputation: 1788

You can sort your list and then take the last element

def autocomplete_freq_words(list_of_words):
    list_of_words.sort(key=lambda w: int(w.split()[-1]))
    return list_of_words[-1]

list_of_words = ["car 1","telephone 3","bottle 10", "laptop 8","window 12","headphones 5"]
print(autocomplete_freq_words(list_of_words))

Upvotes: 0

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