On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:07:18 +1000 Xavier Ho <cont...@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. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
