Dropping max value in list, keeping duplicates

Question

I have a list of lists containing integers. For example, one line would look like this:

my_list = [11,11,10]

I want to drop the max value, with the purpose of keeping the 2 smallest values.

However, when I run this code it not only drops the max value, but also its duplicate:

>>> [x for x in my_list if x!=max(my_list)]

Output: [10]

Everything works as expected when there are no duplicates in the list:

>>> my_list = [12,11,10]
>>> [x for x in my_list if x!=max(my_list)]
Output: [11, 10]

How can I keep the duplicate value?

Answer 1

You can pass maximum value in the list to list.remove method; it removes the first occurrence of the value passed.

>>> my_list.remove(max(my_list))
>>> my_list
[11, 10]

PS: It's a mutable operation, so it changes the original list.

Above works only when there's repeated maximum, you can combine it with what you have done:

if my_list.count(max(my_list)) == 1:
    my_list = [i for i in my_list if i!=max(my_list)]
else:
    my_list.remove(max(my_list))