[Numpy-discussion] is there a sortrows

[josef . pktd]

I was looking for a function that sorts a 2-dimensional array by rows.
That's what I came up with, is there a more direct way?

>>> a
array([[1, 2],
       [0, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [0, 2],
       [2, 1],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [0, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [2, 2]])
>>> a[np.lexsort(np.fliplr(a).T)]
array([[0, 0],
       [0, 0],
       [0, 2],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 2],
       [2, 1],
       [2, 2]])

Note: I needed to flip and transpose, using axis didn't work

>>> a.shape
(10, 2)
>>> np.lexsort(a,axis=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#76>", line 1, in <module>
    np.lexsort(a,axis=1)
ValueError: axis(=1) out of bounds


Specifying individual columns in argument also works, but it's a pain
if I don't know how many columns there are:

>>> a[np.lexsort((a[:,1],a[:,0]))]
array([[0, 0],
       [0, 0],
       [0, 2],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 0],
       [1, 2],
       [2, 1],
       [2, 2]])

A helper function sortrows would be helpful, I don't know what would
be the higher dimensional equivalent.
Or did I miss a function that I didn't find in the help file?

Thanks,

Josef
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