[SciPy-user] Sort 3-D arrays by two columns

[Thomas Nauss]

Thank's a lot! That helps.
Thomas

Tom Denniston wrote:
> I think you want lexsort.  It takes a tuple of columns.
> 
> On 3/14/07, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does lexsort  do what you need?
>>
>> Also, have you seen the numpy examples list?  It's a good place to
>> look for this sort of thing:
>> http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List
>> http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List_With_Doc
>>
>> --bb
>>
>> On 3/14/07, Thomas Nauss <nauss at lcrs.de> wrote:
>>> Dear Experts,
>>> I want plot some satellite datasets using matplotlib with basemap. For
>>> that task, I need a 3-D array (or three 1-D arrays) containing latitude,
>>> longitude, and corresponding data values. Since basemap needs latitude
>>> and longitude values in increasing order, I'm looking for a function to
>>> sort the 3-D array by the two lat/lon columns (i.e. first by latitude,
>>> then by longitude but conserving the value combinations).
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>>
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