max() of a list of tuples

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:58:14AM +0200, Mario Wehbrink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have a list of tuples that look like:
> [(1,3,5), (8,16,2), (2,56,4)]
> 
> what i am interested, in is the tuple with the greatest value in pos 3.
> So in this case it would be (1,3,5). Is there a way to tell
> max(mylistoftuples) to only look at the last position of the tuples?
> 

  Here's another way:

    L = [(1,3,5), (8,16,2), (2,56,4)]
    s = L[:]
    s.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x[2], y[2]))
    print s[-1]

  Jp

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