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I found this code on this site to find the second largest number:
def second_largest(numbers):
m1, m2 = None, None
for x in numbers:
if x >= m1:
m1, m2 = x, m1
elif x > m2:
m2 = x
return m2
Source: Get the second largest number in a list in linear time
Is it possible to modify this code to find the second smallest number? So for example
print second_smallest([1, 2, 3, 4])
2
278
Use Python's min() and max() to find smallest and largest values in your data. Call min() and max() with a single iterable or with any number of regular arguments.
A Simple Solution is to sort the array in increasing order. The first two elements in the sorted array would be the two smallest elements. In this approach, if the smallest element is present more than one time then we will have to use a loop for printing the unique smallest and second smallest elements.
a = [6,5,4,4,2,1,10,1,2,48]
s = set(a) # used to convert any of the list/tuple to the distinct element and sorted sequence of elements
# Note: above statement will convert list into sets
print sorted(s)[1]
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