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