[Tutor] Original indices after Sorting

[Sarma Tangirala]

On 24 July 2012 01:25, Ali Torkamani <torkamani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi every one,
> How can we get the indices of values in the original list after sorting a
> list?
>
> for example:
>
> (Pdb) A=[ 1, -1, 0, 7, 9, 1.3, 2.9 ]
> (Pdb) A.sort()
> (Pdb) A
> [-1, 0, 1, 1.3, 2.9, 7, 9]
> (Pdb)
>
>
> Now I want to have the original indices of the sorted list, i.e:
>
> [1, 2, 0, 5, 6, 3, 4]
>
>
>
This should be of help ...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7851077/how-to-return-index-of-a-sorted-list...
 it uses the sorted method to sort a list rather than A.sort()


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