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

[Robert Kern]

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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Robert Kern

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