Esmail wrote: > I wonder if someone could help me with sorting two corresponding lists. > > For instance the first list contains some items, and the second list > contains their value (higher is better) > > items = [apple, car, town, phone] > values = [5, 2, 7, 1] > > I would like to sort the 'items' list based on the 'values' list so > that I end up with the following two list: > > items = [town, apple, car, phone] > values = [7, 5, 2, 1]
An exotic option: >>> values = [5, 2, 7, 1] >>> items = [apple, car, town, phone] >>> items.sort(key=lambda item, next=iter(values).next: next(), reverse=True) >>> values.sort(reverse=True) >>> items [town, apple, car, phone] >>> values [7, 5, 2, 1] Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list