I have a numerical list:
myList = [1, 2, 3, 100, 5]
Now if I sort this list to obtain [1, 2, 3, 5, 100]
.
What I want is the indices of the elements from the
original list in the sorted order i.e. [0, 1, 2, 4, 3]
--- ala MATLAB's sort function that returns both
values and indices.
If you are using numpy, you have the argsort() function available:
>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.argsort(myList)
array([0, 1, 2, 4, 3])
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.argsort.html
This returns the arguments that would sort the array or list.