http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/top/views/2013-12-01T11:19:56-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2009-04-07T18:57:35-07:00George Sakkishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2591466/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576712-handling-ties-for-top-largestsmallest-elements/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576712 by <a href="/recipes/users/2591466/">George Sakkis</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/heapq/">heapq</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/largest/">largest</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/smallest/">smallest</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/top/">top</a>). Revision 8. </p> <p>The heapq module provides efficient functions for getting the top-N smallest and largest elements of an iterable. A caveat of these functions is that if there are ties (i.e. equal elements with respect to the comparison key), some elements may end up in the returned top-N list while some equal others may not:</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; nsmallest(3, [4,3,-2,-3,2], key=abs) [-2, 2, 3] </code></pre> <p>Although 3 and -3 are equal with respect to the key function, only one of them is chosen to be returned. For several applications, an all-or-nothing approach with respect to ties is preferable or even required.</p> <p>A new optional boolean parameter 'ties' is proposed to accomodate these cases. If ties=True and the iterable contains more than N elements, the length of the returned sorted list can be lower than N if not all ties at the last position can fit in the list:</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; nsmallest(3, [4,3,-2,-3,2], key=abs, ties=True) [-2, 2] </code></pre>

2013-12-01T11:19:56-08:00Mike 'Fuzzy' Partinhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4179778/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577933-distcc-top/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577933 by <a href="/recipes/users/4179778/">Mike 'Fuzzy' Partin</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/color/">color</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/curses/">curses</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/distcc/">distcc</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/distributed/">distributed</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/monitor/">monitor</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pack/">pack</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/struct/">struct</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/top/">top</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unpack/">unpack</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>A small recipe for a curses based, 'top'-like monitor for DistCC. I know there is already distccmon-text, but I don't like it, and much prefer this sytle of monitoring. Note that I don't keep hosts around in the list like distccmon-gui/gnome. The screen is drawn for exactly what is currently in state. The terminal size is respected at initialization time, however resize events aren't handled. There is color designation of job types.</p>