custard_pie wrote: > 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.... > >
you need to pair up your values with the list indices, sort the list of pairs then strip out the indices. One way to do it: >>> v = [2, 3, 1, 4, 5] >>> import operator >>> [ i for (i,j) in sorted(enumerate(v), key=operator.itemgetter(1))] [2, 0, 1, 3, 4] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
