How to find the 1st, 2nd, 3rd highest values in a list in Python

Question

I know how to find the 1st highest value but don\'t know the rest. Keep in mind i need to print the position of the 1st 2nd and 3rd highest value.Thank You and try to keep it si

Answer 1

Use heapq.nlargest:

>>> import heapq
>>> [i
...     for x, i
...     in heapq.nlargest(
...         3,
...         ((x, i) for i, x in enumerate((0,5,8,7,2,4,3,9,1))))]
[7, 2, 3]