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How to get the second largest value of an array when grouped by another array?

# Import iris keeping the text column intact
url = 'https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data'
iris = np.genfromtxt(url, delimiter=',', dtype='object')

# Solution
# Get the species and petal length columns
petal_len_setosa = iris[iris[:, 4] == b'Iris-setosa', [2]].astype('float')

# Get the second last value
np.unique(np.sort(petal_len_setosa))[-2]

# output
1.7