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Tue Jan 13 15:06:54 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041990.html

"Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> writes:

> nlargest(iterable, n=1)
> nsmallest(iterable, n=1)
[...]
>  Note, heapq is used for both (I use
> operator.neg to swap between largest and smallest).

Does that mean nlargest/nsmallest only work for numbers?  I think it
might be useful for e.g. strings too.

   Bernhard

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