Op 2005-05-03, custard_pie schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need help sorting a list...I just can't figure out how to sort a list > and then return a list with the index of the sorted items in the list > for example if the list I want to sort is [2,3,1,4,5] > I need [2,0,1,3,4] to be returned > Can someone help please.... >
Something like this: >>> lst = [2,3,1,4,5] >>> inx = range(len(lst)) >>> inx.sort(lambda x,y: lst[x] - lst[y]) >>> print inx [2, 0, 1, 3, 4] -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
