seemingly simple list indexing problem

[Guilherme Polo]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Ervan Ensis <ervan.ensis at gmail.com> wrote:
> My programming skills are pretty rusty and I'm just learning Python so this
> problem is giving me trouble.
>
> I have a list like [108, 58, 68].  I want to return the sorted indices of
> these items in the same order as the original list.  So I should return [2,
> 0, 1]

You could simply do this:

a = [108, 58, 68]
b = sorted(a)
[b.index(c) for c in a]

>
> For a list that's already in order, I'll just return the indices, i.e. [56,
> 66, 76] should return [0, 1, 2]
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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