Employee Records with namedtuple

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Using collections.namedtuple, define an Employee type with fields name, department, salary. Implement highest_paid(employee_tuples), which accepts a list of plain (name, department, salary) tuples, converts each into an Employee namedtuple, and returns the Employee with the highest salary — comparing via attribute access (.salary), not index access.

Examples

Example 1

Input

highest_paid([('Meera','Analytics',180000), ('Rohit','Analytics',95000)])

Output

Employee(name='Meera', department='Analytics', salary=180000)

Explanation

Meera has the higher salary of the two.

Constraints

employee_tuples is non-empty.
Must compare using attribute access, e.g. emp.salary.

Topics

Tuplescollections.namedtuple

Companies

MetaLinkedInInfosys

Hints

Hint 1

Employee = namedtuple("Employee", ["name", "department", "salary"]).

Hint 2

Employee(*t) unpacks a plain tuple t into a namedtuple instance.

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