The first three max value in a column in python

Question

I am new in Python. I would like to know how should I extract the first three value of a column in Python. I used CSV file. Here is my code:

import pandas as pd
         


        

Answer 1

you want either

# get first three
census_df['COUNTY'].head(3)

or

# get largest three
census_df['COUNTY'].nlargest(3)

if you want the records with the 3 largest COUNTY values

census_df.iloc[census_df['COUNTY'].argsort()[-3:]]