From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:32:54 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue 13274:  Make the pure python code for heapq more closely match the C implementa... 
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Issue 13274:  Make the pure python code for heapq more closely match the C implementation for an undefined corner case.
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diff --git a/Lib/heapq.py b/Lib/heapq.py
index f7560358105b..dec15aec9ce3 100644
--- a/Lib/heapq.py
+++ b/Lib/heapq.py
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ def nlargest(n, iterable):
 
     Equivalent to:  sorted(iterable, reverse=True)[:n]
     """
+    if n < 0:
+        return []
     it = iter(iterable)
     result = list(islice(it, n))
     if not result:
@@ -201,6 +203,8 @@ def nsmallest(n, iterable):
 
     Equivalent to:  sorted(iterable)[:n]
     """
+    if n < 0:
+        return []
     if hasattr(iterable, '__len__') and n * 10 <= len(iterable):
         # For smaller values of n, the bisect method is faster than a minheap.
         # It is also memory efficient, consuming only n elements of space.