Store the items in a list of lists,[word,num]
pairs and then apply min
on that list of list. Use key
parameter of min
to specify the which item must be used for comparison of item.:
with open('abc') as f:
lis = [[line.strip(),next(f).strip()] for line in f]
minn = min(lis, key = lambda x: float(x[1]))
print "\n".join(minn)
...
Over
0.5678
Here lis
looks like this:
[['3.6-band', '6238'], ['Over', '0.5678'], ['Over', '0.6874'], ['Over', '0.7680'], ['Over', '0.7834']]