sorting list and then return the index of the sorted item

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-05-03, Antoon Pardon schreef <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be>:
> Op 2005-05-03, custard_pie schreef <ckwiguno at gmail.com>:
>> I need help sorting a list...I just can't figure out how to sort a list
>> and then return a list with the index of the sorted items in the list
>> for example if the list I want to sort is [2,3,1,4,5]
>> I need [2,0,1,3,4] to be returned
>> Can someone help please....
>>
>
> Something like this:
>
>>>> lst = [2,3,1,4,5]
>>>> inx = range(len(lst))
>>>> inx.sort(lambda x,y: lst[x] - lst[y])
>>>> print inx
> [2, 0, 1, 3, 4]
>

Something a bit more usefull in general:


>>> lst = [2,3,1,4,5]
>>> inx = range(len(lst))
>>> inx.sort(lambda x,y: cmp(lst[x],lst[y]))
>>> print inx
[2, 0, 1, 3, 4]

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Antoon Pardon