speed, weight lifespan brain
animals = [("dog", 46, 35, 13, 280),
("elephant", 30, 3500, 50, 6250),
("frog", 5, 0.5, 8, 3),
("hippopotamus", 45, 1600, 45, 573),
("horse", 40, 385, 30, 642),
("human", 27, 80, 78, 2000),
("lion", 50, 250, 30, 454),
("mouse", 8, 0.025, 2, 0.625),
("rabbit", 25, 4, 12, 40),
("shark", 26, 230, 20, 92),
("sparrow", 16, 0.024, 7, 2)]
def importance_rank(items, weight):
names = [item[0] for item in items]
scores = [sum([a*b for (a,b) in zip(item[1:], weights)]) for item in items]
results = zip(scores,names)
res2 = sorted(results)
return res2
answer = importance_rank(animals, (2,3,7,1))
for i in range(len(answer)):
print i, answer[i][1], "(", answer[i][0], ")"
