How to find the second lowest lists into a nested list by their second value?

Here is given a nested list:

nl = [['Harsh', 20], ['Beria', 20], ['Varun', 19], ['Kakunami', 19], ['Vikas', 21]]

Now I have to find the second lowest lists into the nested list by their second value. And append the second lowest lists into another list.

So the output should be:

['Harsh', 20], ['Beria', 20]

I wrote the following code but it doesn't work:

nl = [['Harsh', 20], ['Beria', 20], ['Varun', 19], ['Kakunami', 19], ['Vikas', 21]]

result=[]

temp=max(nl, key=lambda x: x[1])

largest, larger = temp[1], temp[1]
for num in nl:
    if num[1] < largest:
        largest, larger = num[1], largest
    elif num[1] < larger:
        larger = num[1]
        result.append(larger)
print(result)

Solution

Get the min of the total elements, filter using that valid then get min of remaining and keep elements equal to min of remaining:

from operator import itemgetter
# min of all elements
mn = min(nl, key=itemgetter(1))[1]

# remove elements equal to min
filtered = [x for x in nl if x[1] != mn]

# get min of remaining
mn_fil = min(filtered,key=itemgetter(1))[1]

# filter remaining
out = [x for x in filtered if x[1] == mn_fil]
print(out)

[['Harsh', 20], ['Beria', 20]]

Works for both your cases:

In [19]: nl = [['Prashant', 32], ['Pallavi', 36], ['Dheeraj', 39], ['Shivam', 40]]    
In [20]: from operator import itemgetter    
In [21]: mn = min(nl, key=itemgetter(1))[1]    
In [22]: filtered = [x for x in nl if x[1] != mn]    
In [23]: mn_fil = min(filtered,key=itemgetter(1))[1]    
In [24]: out = [x for x in filtered if x[1] == mn_fil]    
In [25]: out
Out[25]: [['Dheeraj', 36]]

Using a single for loop we remove all elements from the temp list if we find a lower element, if we find and equally lower one we append it:

mn = min(nl, key=itemgetter(1))[1]
temp = []
best = float("inf")
for ele in nl:
    if mn < ele[1] < best:
        best = ele[1]
        temp = []
        out.append(ele)
    elif ele[1] == best:
        temp.append(ele)
print(temp)