[Numpy-discussion] obtain indexes of a sort ?

[Sasha]

>>> argsort([ 6, 5, 99, 2 ])
array([3, 1, 0, 2])

On 4/26/06, Simon Burton <simon at arrowtheory.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to obtain a permutation (array of indices)
> representing the transform that sorts an array ? Is there a numpy way
> of doing this ?
>
> I can do it in python as:
>
> a = [ 6, 5, 99, 2 ]
> idxs = range(len(a))
> z = zip(idxs,a)
> def zcmp(u,v):
>   if u[1]<=v[1]:
>     return -1
>   return 1
> z.sort( zcmp )
> idxs = [u[0] for u in z] # <--- permutation
>
> Simon.
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