Time for action – sorting complex numbers

We will create an array of complex numbers and sort it:

1. Generate five random numbers for the real part of the complex numbers and five numbers for the imaginary part. Seed the random generator to 42:

   np.random.seed(42)
   complex_numbers = np.random.random(5) + 1j * 
   np.random.random(5)
   print("Complex numbers\n", complex_numbers)

2. Call the sort_complex() function to sort the complex numbers we generated in the previous step:

   print("Sorted\n", np.sort_complex(complex_numbers))

   The sorted numbers would be:

   Sorted
   [ 0.39342751+0.34955771j  0.40597665+0.77477433j  0.41516850+0.26221878j
     0.86631422+0.74612422j  0.92293095+0.81335691j]
   

What just happened?

We generated random complex numbers and sorted them using the sort_complex() function (see sortcomplex.py):

from __future__ import print_function
import numpy as np

np.random.seed(42)
complex_numbers = np.random.random(5) + 1j * np.random.random(5)
print("Complex numbers\n&quot...