Retrieving the top 100 numbers from one hundred million of numbers

Question

One of my friend has been asked with a question

Retrieving the max top 100 numbers from one hundred million of numbers

in a rece

Answer 1

Suppose mylist is a list of hundred million data. so we can sort the list and take the last hundred data from mylist.

mylist.sort()

mylist[-100:]

Second way:

import heapq

heapq.nlargest(100, mylist)