How do I return a list of the 3 lowest values in another list

Question

How do I return a list of the 3 lowest values in another list. For example I want to get the 3 lowest values of this list:

in_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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Answer 1

If you could sort,you can get frst 3 elements as below:

 alist=[6, 4, 3, 2, 5, 1]
 sorted(alist)[:3]

Output:

 [1,2,3]