30-seconds-of-code/snippets/key_of_max.md

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Key of max value	dictionary,beginner	2021-01-07T23:15:48+02:00	2021-01-07T23:15:48+02:00

Finds the key of the maximum value in a dictionary.

• Use max() with the key parameter set to dict.get() to find and return the key of the maximum value in the given dictionary.

def key_of_max(d):
  return max(d, key = d.get)

key_of_max({'a':4, 'b':0, 'c':13}) # c