Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > Not sure what the readability issue is. The phrase "nlargest(2, > iterable)" does exactly what it says, finds the 2 largest elements > from an iterable. That makes the programmer's intent more clear than > the slower, but semanticly equivalent form: sorted(iterable)[:2].
I think you meant sorted(iterable, reverse=True)[:2] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
