[Tutor] Sorting more than one list

[Max Noel]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 04:19, Diego Galho Prestes wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I need to sort 4 lists but I need that they make the "sort together".
> I'll sort just one but when I change the position of the items of the
> 1st list I have to change the positions of the other 3 lists. Can I do
> this just using the sort() method of the list object?
> If I can't, someone know a site that have one sort method in python 
> that
> its easily to implement and fast?
>
> Tks,
> Diego

	You can do that with zip().

 >>> zip([1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1])
[(1, 3), (2, 2), (3, 1)]


	It works with any number of lists. If you put the list you want to 
sort against as the first argument to zip, all you have to do is to 
then sort() the resulting list of tuples, and to "unzip" it, which 
should be trivial.

 >>> a = zip([3, 2, 1], [1, 2, 3])
 >>> a
[(3, 1), (2, 2), (1, 3)]
 >>> a.sort()
 >>> a
[(1, 3), (2, 2), (3, 1)]


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