Find the largest value in a dictionary

Question

How can I find the largest among all the values in a dictionary?

Answer 1

import operator
stats = {'a':1000, 'b':3000, 'c': 100}
max(stats.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))[0]

Answer 2

Use below running code which is simple 3 line code to get maximum for dictionary.
 

dictionary = {'george' : 16, 'amber' : 11}
maxNumber= max(dictionary,key=dictionary.get)
print(maxNumber)

Refer to this dictionary operation link for more similar operations with running code.