[Python] Remove Duplicate Dictionaries from a list based on certain numeric value

I have a list of dictionary values which has duplicate name values. I would like to remove only the one whose value is less for the same name. For example, I have an input like below.

[{'name': 'x', 'value': 0.6479667110413355},
{'name': 'x', 'value': 1.0},
{'name': 'y', 'value': 0.9413355},
{'name': 'y', 'value': 0.9}]


Hence, compare all the values of x and keep only that dictionary that has the highest values of x. Same goes for y. What I would like to have output is

[{'name': 'x', 'value': 1.0},
{'name': 'y', 'value': 0.9413355}]


I was trying on the lines like this:

input_list = [{'name': 'x', 'value': 0.6479667110413355}, {'name': 'x', 'value': 1.0},{'name': 'y', 'value': 0.9413355}, {'name': 'y', 'value': 0.9}]

results = defaultdict(list)

for element in input_list:
for key, value in element.items():
results[key].append(value)

for item_key, item_value in results.items():
results[item_key] = max(item_value)

print(results)



Output

defaultdict(<class 'list'>, {'name': 'y', 'value': 1.0})



I am missing something here. Getting only value of y and not x Can someone help on this.

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