How to sort each row of a 3D numpy array by another 2D array?

Question

I have a 2D numpy array of 2D points:

np.random.seed(0)   
a = np.random.rand(3, 4, 2) # each value is a 2D point

I would like to sort each r

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, you want this:

norms = np.linalg.norm(a,axis=2) # shape(3,4)
indices = np.argsort(norms , axis=1)
np.take_along_axis(a, indices[:,:,None], axis=1)

output for your example:

[[[0.4236548  0.64589411]
  [0.60276338 0.54488318]
  [0.5488135  0.71518937]
  [0.43758721 0.891773  ]]

 [[0.07103606 0.0871293 ]
  [0.79172504 0.52889492]
  [0.96366276 0.38344152]
  [0.56804456 0.92559664]]

 [[0.0202184  0.83261985]
  [0.46147936 0.78052918]
  [0.77815675 0.87001215]
  [0.97861834 0.79915856]]]