a query on sorting

[Steve Holden]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> 
>>>  >>> sorted((x[1], x[0]) for x in enumerate(a))
>>>[(1, 7), (2, 4), (2, 8), (3, 2), (4, 1), (5, 3), (6, 5), (7, 6), (9, 0)]
>>
>>Why forcing to use enumerate if it doesn't fit? And a generator won't
>>help here since you have to access all the items.
>>
>>sorted([(a[i],i) for i in range(len(a))])
> 
> 
> I think 
> 
>    sorted((x,i) for i,x in enumerate(a))
> 
> looks nicer than the above. 

Indeed it does: an excellent refinement of my rather crappily-expressed 
original idea.

regards
  Steve
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