collections.Counter for letters, min with key clear solution for The Most Wanted Letter by Phil15 - python coding challenges

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collections.Counter for letters, min with key solution in Clear category for The Most Wanted Letter by Phil15

from collections import Counter

def checkio(text):
    counts = Counter(ch.lower() for ch in text if ch.isalpha())
    return min(counts, key=lambda ch: (-counts[ch], ch))

Feb. 28, 2020

Comments:

serp90 on April 2, 2021, 6:18 p.m.
<p>Great! I didn't think to use tuple as a key for sorting with priority</p>

Phil15 on April 2, 2021, 7:24 p.m.
<p>Yeah, tuple-key sorting is as essential as it is easy. 😀</p>

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