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To find the largest items in a collection, heapq module has a function called nlargest, we pass it two arguments, the first one is the number of items that we want to retrieve, the second one is the collection name: import heapq numbers = [1, 4, 2, 100, 20, 50, 32, 200, 150, 8] print(heapq.nl...

The most interesting property of a heap is that its smallest element is always the first element: heap[0] import heapq numbers = [10, 4, 2, 100, 20, 50, 32, 200, 150, 8] heapq.heapify(numbers) print(numbers) # Output: [2, 4, 10, 100, 8, 50, 32, 200, 150, 20] heapq.heappop(numbers) # 2...