finding 2 max values in an array in python

[volcano63]

>>> def n_max(seq, n=2):
...   max_items = sorted(enumerate(seq), key=lambda x: x[1])[-1 * n:]
...   return max_items[::-1]
...
>>> items = [4, 5, 3, 2, 63, 0, 1, 5]
>>> n_max(items, 2)
[(4, 63), (7, 5)]

....

from operator import itemgetter
def n_max(seq, n=2):
    return sorted(enumerate(seq), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:n]