On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> Assuming top-k doesn't mean something obscurely statistical: > > l = [1,2, 3, 4, 5] > k = 3 > print (sorted (l, reverse=True)[:k]) > You don't really need to reverse sort there: >>> numbers = [1, 4, 5, 3, 7, 8] >>> sorted(numbers)[3:] [5, 7, 8] Cheers, Xav
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