argmin() and argsort()

[PythonNewbie]

I noticed that argsort()[:1] returns an array, while argmin() returns a scalar.

indx_argmin() returns an integer.
x.argsort() returns an array and then you're accessing a slice with [:k] which still returns an array.

Right, but what I am trying to do is select the indices of the k smallest numbers instead of the index of the smallest number as a generalization. I wanted to test the general function argsort()[:k] by putting k = 1 and compare the results to that of argmin(), but the results were different. Why? and how can I fix it?

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you can get the max of a list with:

max(x)

But I don't want the max of a list. I want the indices of the k smallest numbers in an array.