numpy.searchsorted#

numpy.searchsorted(a, v, side='left', sorter=None)[source]#

Find indices where elements should be inserted to maintain order.

Find the indices into a sorted array a such that, if the corresponding elements in v were inserted before the indices, the order of a would be preserved.

Assuming that a is sorted:

side	returned index i satisfies
left	`a[i-1] < v <= a[i]`
right	`a[i-1] <= v < a[i]`

Parameters:

a1-D array_like: Input array. If sorter is None, then it must be sorted in ascending order, otherwise sorter must be an array of indices that sort it.
varray_like: Values to insert into a.
side{‘left’, ‘right’}, optional: If ‘left’, the index of the first suitable location found is given. If ‘right’, return the last such index. If there is no suitable index, return either 0 or N (where N is the length of a).
sorter1-D array_like, optional: Optional array of integer indices that sort array a into ascending order. They are typically the result of argsort.

New in version 1.7.0.

Returns:

indicesint or array of ints: Array of insertion points with the same shape as v, or an integer if v is a scalar.

See also

sort: Return a sorted copy of an array.
histogram: Produce histogram from 1-D data.

Notes

Binary search is used to find the required insertion points.

As of NumPy 1.4.0 searchsorted works with real/complex arrays containing nan values. The enhanced sort order is documented in sort.

This function uses the same algorithm as the builtin python bisect.bisect_left (side='left') and bisect.bisect_right (side='right') functions, which is also vectorized in the v argument.

Examples

>>> np.searchsorted([1,2,3,4,5], 3)
2
>>> np.searchsorted([1,2,3,4,5], 3, side='right')
3
>>> np.searchsorted([1,2,3,4,5], [-10, 10, 2, 3])
array([0, 5, 1, 2])