import heapq nums = [1, 8, 2, 23, 7, -4, 18, 23, 42, 37, 2] print(heapq.nlargest(3, nums)) # Prints [42, 37, 23] print(heapq.nsmallest(3, nums)) # Prints [-4, 1, 2]
portfolio = [ {'name': 'IBM', 'shares': 100, 'price': 91.1}, {'name': 'AAPL', 'shares': 50, 'price': 543.22}, {'name': 'FB', 'shares': 200, 'price': 21.09}, {'name': 'HPQ', 'shares': 35, 'price': 31.75}, {'name': 'YHOO', 'shares': 45, 'price': 16.35}, {'name': 'ACME', 'shares': 75, 'price': 115.65} ] cheap = heapq.nsmallest(3, portfolio, key=lambda s: s['price']) expensive = heapq.nlargest(3, portfolio, key=lambda s: s['price'])
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