Optimal method to find the max of sublist items within list

Question

I have a multidimensional list in the format:

list = [[1, 2, 3], [2, 4, 2], [0, 1, 1]]

How do I obtain the maximum value of the third value

Answer 1

applying max on the list will return the maximum list, which isn't what you want. You could indeed use a list comprehension to extract the third element, and then apply max on that comprehension:

>>> lst = [[1, 2, 3], [2, 4, 2], [0, 1, 1]]
>>> max([x[2] for x in lst])
3