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+# Python 1.4 beta on DOSBOX
+
+def smaller_than_current( intuple ):
+ ranks=[]
+ for i in range(len(intuple)):
+  ranks.append((intuple[i],i))
+ ranks.sort()
+ ranks=map(lambda x:x[1], ranks)
+ retval=[None]*len(intuple)
+ retval[ranks[0]]=0
+ for i in range(1,len(ranks)):
+  if intuple[ranks[i]]==intuple[ranks[i-1]]:
+   retval[ranks[i]]=retval[ranks[i-1]]
+  else:
+   retval[ranks[i]]=i
+ return retval
+
+ 
+print smaller_than_current( (5,2,1,6) ) # (2,1,0,3)
+print smaller_than_current( (1,2,0,3) ) # (1,2,0,3)
+print smaller_than_current( (0,1) )     # (0,1)
+print smaller_than_current( (9,4,9,2) ) # (2,1,2,0)