Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/93#issuecomment-37232223
In particular note that you can use `heapq.heappushpop` to add each item
and remove the smallest one when the heap reaches the required size. Before
that, just use `heappush`.
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