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Find the max number of elements in lists as value in a dictionary using Python?

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I want to find the maximal number of elements contained in a nested dictionary, e.g.

data = {
 'violations':
 {
 'col1': {'err': [elem1, elem2, elem3]},
 'col2': {'err': [elem1, elem2]}
 }
 }

so to find the maximal number of elements in the lists for key 'err' in key 'col1' and 'col2'. Also key 'violations' may contain many keys (e.g. 'col1' , 'col2', 'col3' etc), so what's the best way to do this (using a loop)?

max = 0for col in data.violations:
 if max < len(data.violations.col.err):
 max = len(data.violations.col.err)
posted May 25, 2016 by anonymous

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