From d3fd9d9de5654e4ee2feca3c41d9414b4394c331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohit Tanwar Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:17:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] fix max_n --- snippets/max_n.md | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/snippets/max_n.md b/snippets/max_n.md index 05953faeb..6fe3f5092 100644 --- a/snippets/max_n.md +++ b/snippets/max_n.md @@ -5,14 +5,8 @@ Returns the `n` maximum elements from the provided list. If `n` is greater than Use `list.sort()` combined with the `deepcopy` function from the inbuilt `copy` module to create a shallow clone of the list and sort it in ascending order and then use `list.reverse()` reverse it to make it descending order. Use `[:n]` to get the specified number of elements. Omit the second argument, `n`, to get a one-element array ```python -from copy import deepcopy - - -def max_n(arr, n=1): - numbers = deepcopy(arr) - numbers.sort() - numbers.reverse() - return numbers[:n] +def max_n(arr, n=1, reverse=True): + return sorted(arr, reverse=reverse)[:n] ``` ```python