Level 1Exercise #19

Rank candidates

Sort (name, score) pairs by descending score, then alphabetically for ties.

Sample Test Cases

Example #1

Input:rank([("Zoya", 82), ("Ari", 91), ("Noah", 91)])

Output:[('Ari',91),('Noah',91),('Zoya',82)]

Reveal Reference Solution

def rank(rows: list[tuple[str, int]]) -> list[tuple[str, int]]:
    return sorted(rows, key=lambda row: (-row[1], row[0]))

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