Returning a result from 3 items in a list

[Cai Gengyang]

Strange, it gives me an error message when i type result["jordan"] or result[max(result)] though :

>>> results = { 
  "gengyang": 14, 
  "ensheng": 13, 
  "jordan": 12 
} 

>>> result["jordan"]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#27>", line 1, in <module>
    result["jordan"]
NameError: name 'result' is not defined

>>> result[max(result)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#28>", line 1, in <module>
    result[max(result)]
NameError: name 'result' is not defined
>>> 


On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 6:14:43 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's a dictionary with 3 values :
> >
> > results = {
> >   "gengyang": 14,
> >   "ensheng": 13,
> >   "jordan": 12
> > }
> >
> > How do I define a function that takes the last of the 3 items in that list and returns Jordan's results i.e. (12) ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot !
> 
> If you want Jordan's result, that's easy:
> 
> result["jordan"]
> 
> But there's no concept of "the last" entry in a dict. They don't have
> an order. Do you mean "the entry with the greatest key"? That could be
> written thus:
> 
> result[max(result)]
> 
> because max(result) is the string "jordan".
> 
> Does either of those make sense for what you're doing?
> 
> ChrisA