From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:54:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix argument order in pure python version of nsmallest() and nlargest().
X-Git-Tag: v2.4~6
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1defa4175426594be53c1bc6c3d2f02a0952bae;p=python

Fix argument order in pure python version of nsmallest() and nlargest().
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diff --git a/Lib/heapq.py b/Lib/heapq.py
index 14a00dc04b..b4ebb91f14 100644
--- a/Lib/heapq.py
+++ b/Lib/heapq.py
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ def heapify(x):
     for i in reversed(xrange(n//2)):
         _siftup(x, i)
 
-def nlargest(iterable, n):
+def nlargest(n, iterable):
     """Find the n largest elements in a dataset.
 
     Equivalent to:  sorted(iterable, reverse=True)[:n]
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def nlargest(iterable, n):
     result.sort(reverse=True)
     return result
 
-def nsmallest(iterable, n):
+def nsmallest(n, iterable):
     """Find the n smallest elements in a dataset.
 
     Equivalent to:  sorted(iterable)[:n]
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_heapq.py b/Lib/test/test_heapq.py
index 7848e4e98a..68003e7f98 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_heapq.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_heapq.py
@@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ class TestHeap(unittest.TestCase):
         self.check_invariant(results)
 
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, heappush, [])
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, heappush, None, None)
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, heappop, None)
+        try:
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, heappush, None, None)
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, heappop, None)
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
 
     def check_invariant(self, heap):
         # Check the heap invariant.