If you just want the highest value from a dict and you don't care about what key it's associated with, you can just do:

max_value = max(d.values())

If you just want the highest value from a dict and you don't care about what key it's associated with, you can just do:

max_value = max(d.values())

For the key of the max value:

max_key = max(d, key=d.get)

If you want both in a pair:

max_tuple = max(d.items(), key=lambda k: k[1])