CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

get max n values in dict py

import heapq
from operator import itemgetter

n = 3

items = {'a': 7, 'b': 12, 'c': 9, 'd': 0, 'e': 24, 'f': 10, 'g': 24}

topitems = heapq.nlargest(n, items.items(), key=itemgetter(1))  # Use .iteritems() on Py2
topitemsasdict = dict(topitems)