I am trying to get the largest and smallest value / values from a dictionary. Where the lowest value should not be zero, but the closest to it. If there is a 0 present and the values are K:0 K:3 K:7 K:1 it should return 1 and not 0. I've tried using the min / max functions, but haven't been able to get them to work properly. Want to get all values even when there are multiple. Example Dictionary. Dict = {"D1" : "0", "D2" : "2", "D3" : "7", "D4" : "7", "D5" : "4"} Highest = max(Dict, key=Dict.get) Lowest = min(Dict, key=Dict.get) Only gets me D3 and D1 respectively. Also returns the 0. Highest works in most cases, but Lowest returns the 0. Should there be a check after lowest has been assigned and iterate over the dictionary again? Highest and Lowest can be a list or a single Value doesn't really matter. My current code looks something like this. Dict = {"D1" : "0", "D2" : "2", "D3" : "7", "D4" : "7", "D5" : "4"} Highest = max(Dict, key=Dict.get) Lowest = min(Dict, key=Dict.get) for key, value in Dict.items(): if value == Dict[Highest]: Do x elif value == Dict[Lowest]: Do y else: Do z Which mostly works, except for the above mentioned 0 getting returned. Edit Was doing some more testing and the dictionaries received had a chance to be full of zero values or the same positive integer. Which made the solution a bit wonky. Decided to change it up a bit and iterate over the items instead by assigning a start value for both highest and lowest. When iterating through the dictionary I assigned new values to highest and lowest if they were either > or < respectively. Something like the code below. (Tried to comment with some code, but the formatting got messed up, so decided to edit the question a bit instead). Highest = -1 Lowest = 1000000 # Highest Value the dictionary values may have for key in dict: if dict[key] > Highest and dict[key] != 0: Highest = dict[key] if dict[key] < Lowest and dict[key] != 0: Lowest = dict[key] # Then possible to iterate over the dictionary and get the highest and lowest values from the dictionary. for key, value in dict.items(): if value == Highest and Highest != -1: Do X elif value != 0: if value == Lowest and Lowest != 1000000: Do Y else: Do z else: Do z Continue reading...
