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Say I've got a list and I want to iterate over the first n of them. What's the best way to write this in Python?
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To access the first n elements from a list, we can use the slicing syntax [ ] by passing a 0:n as an arguments to it . 0 is the start index (it is inculded). n is end index (it is excluded).
Method #1 : Using sorted() + lambda The combination of above functionality can be used to perform this particular task. In this, we just employ sorted function with reverse flag true, and print the top N elements using list slicing.
The normal way would be slicing:
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