[Numpy-discussion] lexsort

[Eleanor]

Anne Archibald <peridot.faceted <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> It appears that lexsort is broken in several ways, and its docstring
> is misleading.
> 
> First of all, this code is not doing quite what you describe. The
> primary key here is the [5,6,7,8] column, followed by the middle and
> then by the first. This is almost exactly the opposite of what you
> want.


Ouch!

That would've got me bad. 

>>>a = numpy.array([[1,2,60], [2,2,800], [2,1,7],[1,1,50]])
>>> a
array([[  1,   2,  60],
       [  2,   2, 800],
       [  2,   1,   7],
       [  1,   1,  50]])
>>> a[numpy.lexsort( (a[:,1],a[:,0]) ),:]
array([[  1,   1,  50],
       [  1,   2,  60],
       [  2,   1,   7],
       [  2,   2, 800]])
This is correct
versus

>>> a[numpy.lexsort(a.T),:]
array([[  2,   1,   7],
       [  1,   1,  50],
       [  1,   2,  60],
       [  2,   2, 800]])

which isn't. 

Thanks very much Eleanor