Daily Interview Problem: Find the k-th Largest Element in a List

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Given a list, find the k-th largest element in the list.
Input: list = [3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 8], k = 3
Output: 5
Here is a starting point:

def findKthLargest(nums, k):

  # Fill this in.



print findKthLargest([3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 8], 3)

# 5