python列表中最多的元素,Python：从某些列表中获取最多N个元素

Is there some function which would return me the N highest elements from some list?

I.e. if max(l) returns the single highest element, sth. like max(l, count=10) would return me a list of the 10 highest numbers (or less if l is smaller).

Or what would be an efficient easy way to get these? (Except the obvious canonical implementation; also, no such things which involve sorting the whole list first because that would be inefficient compared to the canonical solution.)

解决方案

>>> import heapq, random

>>> heapq.nlargest(3, (random.gauss(0, 1) for _ in xrange(100)))

[1.9730767232998481, 1.9326532289091407, 1.7762926716966254]