How do I get indices of N maximum values in a NumPy array?

Question

NumPy proposes a way to get the index of the maximum value of an array via np.argmax.

I would like a similar thing, but returning the indexes of the

Answer 1

bottleneck has a partial sort function, if the expense of sorting the entire array just to get the N largest values is too great.

_{I know nothing about this module; I just googled numpy partial sort.}