[SciPy-user] one-liner to retrieve indices of n smallest values from an array?

[Aaron Hoover]

Hi Robert,

Thanks, is there a simple way to extend this to 2D arrays, or does  
that require the use of ravel()?

-Aaron
On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Aaron Hoover wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Perhaps this is better suited for the NumPy list, but is there a
>> simple (one line, perhaps) way to get the indices of the n smallest
>> elements of an array? Something along the lines of argmin() that
>> could take a parameter indicating
>> how many minimal values to return?
>
> a.argsort()[:n]
>
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