[Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg.

f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23]
i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45]

The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort().  This is fine but my sequences contain 10,000+ elements and the sort is performed thousands of times.  Is there a faster solution?

Dinesh

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