[Numpy-discussion] sort bug

[tan2]

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> On 4/26/07, Anton Sherwood <anton.sherwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > All I really need is the four highest eigenvalues and their vectors.
> > I'll have a look in "Python Cookbook" to see if there's a more
> > efficient way to do that partial sort.
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Maybe "heapq.nlargest()" is what you want?
http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-heapq.html
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