How to uniqufy the tuple element?

Question

i have a result tuple of dictionaries.

result = ({\'name\': \'xxx\', \'score\': 120L }, {\'name\': \'xxx\', \'score\': 100L}, {\'name\': \'yyy\', \'score\':          


        

Answer 1

from operator import itemgetter

names = set(d['name'] for d in result)
uniq = []
for name in names:
    scores = [res for res in result if res['name'] == name]
    uniq.append(max(scores, key=itemgetter('score')))

I'm sure there is a shorter solution, but you won't be able to avoid filtering the scores by name in some way first, then find the maximum for each name.

Storing scores in a dictionary with names as keys would definitely be preferable here.