lists of lists

[sillybee]

brand new to python so please be gentle! i have a function that returns a list of lists, but now i need to access and print the biggest list. i have started off with this:

for list in listoflists:
>>>size = len(list)

and then i want to do something like compare all the sizes and just print the biggest one, but i can't get my head around the syntax. or should i be going about this a completely different way?

any advice gratefully received, thanks :)

[bvdet]

brand new to python so please be gentle! i have a function that returns a list of lists, but now i need to access and print the biggest list. i have started off with this:

for list in listoflists:
>>>size = len(list)

and then i want to do something like compare all the sizes and just print the biggest one, but i can't get my head around the syntax. or should i be going about this a completely different way?

any advice gratefully received, thanks :)

print max([(len(i), i) for i in listOfLists])[1]

[r035198x]

brand new to python so please be gentle! i have a function that returns a list of lists, but now i need to access and print the biggest list. i have started off with this:

for list in listoflists:
>>>size = len(list)

and then i want to do something like compare all the sizes and just print the biggest one, but i can't get my head around the syntax. or should i be going about this a completely different way?

any advice gratefully received, thanks :)

Hi I'm a beginner as well, here's what I did

>>> a = [2, 4, 6, 6]
>>> b = [7, 8, 9]
>>> c = ["66", "77", "88", "9000"]
>>> d = [b, c, a]
>>> largest = d[0]
for items in d:
    x = len(items)
    y = len(largest)
    if x > y:
        largest = items
 
 
>>> print largest
['66', '77', '88', '9000']

[r035198x]

print max([(len(i), i) for i in listOfLists])[1]

Neat. These lists can get ugly at times but once you get it becomes fun.

[ghostdog74]

>>> alist=[[1,2],[4,5,6,7],[1],[5,6,7,8]]
>>> max(alist)
[5, 6, 7, 8]
 

[r035198x]

>>> alist=[[1,2],[4,5,6,7],[1],[5,6,7,8]]
>>> max(alist)
[5, 6, 7, 8]
 

I did the following

>>> a = [5, 6, 7]
>>> b = ["6", "6"]
>>> c = [a, b]
>>> max(c)
['6', '6']
>>>

Does it work only for lists with the same type of data?

[bvdet]

>>> alist=[[1,2],[4,5,6,7],[1],[5,6,7,8]]
>>> max(alist)
[5, 6, 7, 8]
 

I think the OP is looking for the longest list.

>>> listOfLists = [[1,2,3], [3,4], [5,6,7,8], [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
>>> max(listOfLists)
[5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> print max([(len(i), i) for i in listOfLists])[1]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

[ghostdog74]

I think the OP is looking for the longest list.

>>> listOfLists = [[1,2,3], [3,4], [5,6,7,8], [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
>>> max(listOfLists)
[5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> print max([(len(i), i) for i in listOfLists])[1]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

oh my bad for misreading.