in sketches/Sketches.py [0:0]
def query(self, q=None, parameters=None):
"""
return topK item, cnt pairs
"""
arr = [(topk_item.nhat(), topk_item.item) for topk_item in self.topk_sampler.buffer]
arr.sort(reverse = True)
return [(x,nhat) for nhat, x in arr[:min(self.k,len(arr))]]