Numpy argsort - what is it doing?

Question

Why is numpy giving this result:

x = numpy.array([1.48,1.41,0.0,0.1])
print x.argsort()

>[2 3 1 0]

when I\'d expect it to do this:

Answer 1

Just want to directly contrast the OP's original understanding against the actual implementation with code.

numpy.argsort is defined such that for 1D arrays:

x[x.argsort()] == numpy.sort(x) # this will be an array of True's

The OP originally thought that it was defined such that for 1D arrays:

x == numpy.sort(x)[x.argsort()] # this will not be True

Note: This code doesn't work in the general case (only works for 1D), this answer is purely for illustration purposes.