Return a key value-pair which value is the highest

Question

The dictionary:

sales_year = {"1998": 3124, "1999": 234, "2001": 7214, "2002": 789}

How can I return the key-value pair of which the value is the highest? In this case it should return:

("2001", 7214)

Is there any function like "max()" which is as simple as possible?

see https://stackoverflow.com/a/280156/12693728 – mrxra May 21 '21 at 14:12 — mrxra, May 21 '21 at 14:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '21 at 14:31

Buddy Bob's homemade approach. Find max value, iterate through dicts keys, locate certain key.

sales_year = {"1998": 3124, "1999": 234, "2001": 7214, "2002": 789}
for k in sales_year.keys():
    if sales_year[k] == max(sales_year.values()):
        print(k,max(sales_year.values()))
        break

Return a key value-pair which value is the highest

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