Hi, friends. I wanna ask if there is a function which is able to take a list as argument and then return its top-k maximums?

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.net
Thu Apr 22 10:23:29 EDT 2010


On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:07:18 +1000
Xavier Ho <contact at xavierho.com> wrote:
> > print (sorted (l, reverse=True)[:k])
> 
> You don't really need to reverse sort there:

True but...

> >>> numbers = [1, 4, 5, 3, 7, 8]
> >>> sorted(numbers)[3:]
> [5, 7, 8]

Now try returning the top two or four numbers.

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