Tough sorting problem: or, I'm confusing myself

[Lie Ryan]

On 04/15/10 02:03, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger <python at 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]


or sorted(iterable)[-2:]