max() of a list of tuples

[Max M]

Mario Wehbrink wrote:

 > i have a list of tuples that look like:
 > [(1,3,5), (8,16,2), (2,56,4)]
 >
 > what i am interested, in is the tuple with the greatest value in pos 3.
 > So in this case it would be (1,3,5). Is there a way to tell
 > max(mylistoftuples) to only look at the last position of the tuples?


l = [(1,3,5), (8,16,2), (2,56,4)]
print max([(i[-1],i) for i in l])[1]

 >>> (1,3,5)

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