Finding the biggest element in a list of lists

Question

I'm catching up with Python3 so I hope I can get some slack :P I have a list of lists, say:

results=[[1, 5000],
 [2, 5000],
 [3, 6666],
 [4, 6250],
 [5, 6000],
 [6, 5833],
 [7, 5714],
 [8, 6250],
 [9, 6111]]

And I would like to get the entry which has the biggest second value (in this case, the pair [3, 6666]).

Could I have some quick reference on how to get it?

Thanks!

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '20 at 16:05

2

Here is one approach using itemgetter()

import operator
 
>>> max(results, key=operator.itemgetter(1))
[3, 6666]
>>>

answered Sep 14 '20 at 16:05

Tibebes. M

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