Series.nlargest(*args, **kwargs)
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Return the largest n
elements.
Parameters: |
n : int Return this many descending sorted values keep : {‘first’, ‘last’, False}, default ‘first’ Where there are duplicate values: - take_last : deprecated |
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Returns: |
top_n : Series The n largest values in the Series, in sorted order |
See also
Faster than .sort_values(ascending=False).head(n)
for small n
relative to the size of the Series
object.
>>> import pandas as pd >>> import numpy as np >>> s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1e6)) >>> s.nlargest(10) # only sorts up to the N requested
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