[Numpy-discussion] Reading records from file and sorting

[George S. <geo...@gm...>]

Is there a more elegant and/or faster way to read some records from a
file and then sort them by different fields ? What I have now is too
specific and error-prone in general:

import numpy as N
records = N.fromfile(a_file, dtype=N.dtype('i2,i4'))
records_by_f0 = records.take(records.getfield('i2').argsort())
records_by_f1 = records.take(records.getfield('i4',2).argsort())

If there's a better way, I'd like to see it; bonus points for in-place
sorting.

Thanks,
George