sorting list and then return the index of the sorted item

[Simon Brunning]

On 3 May 2005 06:37:14 -0700, custard_pie <ckwiguno at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

>>> spam = [2,3,1,4,5]
>>> list(index for index, item in sorted(enumerate(spam), key=lambda
item: item[1]))
[2, 0, 1, 3, 4]

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Cheers,
Simon B,
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