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

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
max_by	math,list,beginner	2019-08-20T15:42:41+03:00	2020-11-02T19:28:27+02:00

Returns the maximum value of a list, after mapping each element to a value using the provided function.

• Use map() with fn to map each element to a value using the provided function.
• Use max() to return the maximum value.

def max_by(lst, fn):
  return max(map(fn, lst))

max_by([{ 'n': 4 }, { 'n': 2 }, { 'n': 8 }, { 'n': 6 }], lambda v : v['n']) # 8