python 3.2 - find second smallest number in a list using recursion

Question

So I need to find the second smallest number within a list of integers using recursion but I cannot for the life of me devise a way to do it. I can do it with to find smalle

Answer 1

Here:

def r_sort(a_list, ind):
    def rf(list_to_be_sorted, list_already_sorted):
        li = []
        if len(list_to_be_sorted) == 0:
            return list_already_sorted
        else:    
            x = min(list_to_be_sorted)    
            list_to_be_sorted.remove(x)
            li.append(x)
            return rf(list_to_be_sorted, list_already_sorted + li)
    return rf(a_list, [])[ind]

>>> r_sort([1,10,9,5,55,3,2], 1)  
2