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Given the names and grades for each student in a class of students, store them in a nested list and print the name(s) of any student(s) having the second lowest grade.

Note: If there are multiple students with the second lowest grade, order their names alphabetically and print each name on a new line.

Example

The ordered list of scores is , so the second lowest score is . There are two students with that score: . Ordered alphabetically, the names are printed as:

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@sriyaranipatro

N = int(raw_input())

students = []
for i in range(2*N):
students.append(input().split())
grades = {}
for j in range(0, len(students), 2):
grades[students[j][0]] = float(students[j + 1][0])
result = []
num_to_match = sorted(set(grades.values()))[1]
for pupil in grades.keys():
if grades[pupil] == num_to_match:
result.append(pupil)
for k in sorted(result):
print (k)

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