You have got three variables like
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
and you find the minimum can you somehow display the variable name instead of the value it has
Example
d = min[a,b,c]
after this operation d should become c since c is the greatest. Or maybe there's some alternative way because i want to assign the variable name in another operation afterwards.
Put variables into a dictionary and call min() with specifying dictionary get as a key:
>>> a = 1
>>> b = 2
>>> c = 3
>>> data = {'a': a, 'b': b, 'c': c}
>>> min(data, key=data.get)
'a'
You shouldn't do that. Instead, you should do something like:
data = {
'a' : 1
'b' : 2
'c' : 3
}
# get the minimum item, by the value.
smallest = min(data.items(), key = lambda item: item[1])
data[smallest] = my_new_value
key=operator.itemgetter(1) if you want to avoid lambdas.
a, sinceais the smallest... what do you mean by that? do you want it to be the string'c'?