"Kam-Hung Soh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 10 May 2008 07:19:38 +1000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > What would be the best method to print the top results, the one's that >>> > had the highest amount of anagrams?? Create a new histogram dict? >>> >>> You can use the max() function to find the biggest list of anagrams: >>> >>> top_results = max(anagrams.itervalues(), key=len) >>> >>> -- >>> Arnaud >> >> That is the biggest list of anagrams, what if I wanted the 3 biggest >> lists? Is there a way to specific top three w/ a max command?? >> > > Built-in max() function only returns one result. > > My solution is to make a sorted list and return last three items: > > sorted((len(anagrams[key]), key) for key in anagrams.keys())[-3:]
Using the key= parameter of sorted() beats explicit DSU: sorted(anagrams.itervalues(), key=len)[-3:] Or even sorted(anagrams.itervalues(), key=len, reverse=True)[:3] -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
