undo or reverse argsort(), python

There are probably better solutions to the problem you are actually trying to solve than this (performing an argsort usually precludes the need to actually sort), but here you go:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np.random.randint(0,10,10)
>>> aa = np.argsort(a)
>>> aaa = np.argsort(aa)
>>> a # original
array([6, 4, 4, 6, 2, 5, 4, 0, 7, 4])
>>> a[aa] # sorted
array([0, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7])
>>> a[aa][aaa] # undone
array([6, 4, 4, 6, 2, 5, 4, 0, 7, 4])

For all those still looking for an answer:

In [135]: r = rand(10)

In [136]: i = argsort(r)

In [137]: r_sorted = r[i]

In [138]: i_rev = zeros(10, dtype=int)

In [139]: i_rev[i] = arange(10)

In [140]: allclose(r, r_sorted[i_rev])

Out[140]: True