leodp wrote: > I cannot find anything on this: > I have a few lists, and would like to sort one of them (sorting-master > list). > Then I would like to sort all other lists according to how the first > one was sorted (sorting-slave lists). > > Is there a standard way to do that? > From what I know sort() and sorted() do not return the order of > sorting. > Maybe I have to write some more code.
Or provide a better explanation and an example. Do you mean something like this? >>> master = [1,3,5,2,4,6] >>> slave = [1,2,3,4] >>> slave.sort(key=master.index) >>> slave [1, 3, 2, 4] It can be made more robust and efficient with an intermediate dictionary: >>> master_dict = dict((v, i) for i, v in enumerate(master)) >>> slave = ["yadda",1,2,3,6,42] >>> slave.sort(key=master_dict.get) >>> slave ['yadda', 42, 1, 3, 2, 6] Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
