Question

Given the same dictionary, medals, now sort by the medal count. Save the three countries with the highest medal count to the list, top_three. Write the code.

medals = {'Japan':41, 'Russia':56, 'South Korea':21, 'United States':121, 'Germany':42, 'China':70}
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Answer 1

Answer:

use inbuilt sort function with lambda to sort specific value in iterator. StackOverflow it.

Answer 2

medals = {'Japan':41, 'Russia':56, 'South Korea':21, 'United States':121, 'Germany':42, 'China':70}

def g(k,d):

return d[k]

ks = medals.keys()

top_three = sorted(ks,key=lambda x : g(x,medals),reverse = True)