How to get N Largest and Smallest list of elements from a list?
import heapq thelist = [1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11] print(heapq.nlargest(5, thelist)) print(heapq.nsmallest(5, thelist))
Output
[11, 10, 9, 8, 7] [1, 1, 2, 3, 3]