What's b.index(x) do?
I'm guessing the for a list Delta = ["a,"b","c"], you get
Delta.index("b")
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Am I right?
On Apr 1, 2005 1:16 PM, py <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> An alternative way of doing this (if you have python 2.4):
>
> >>> ppl = ['john', 'mary', 'lary', 'jane']
> >>> age = [15, 30, 23, 25]
> >>> height= [160, 165, 178, 170]
>
> >>> sortby = lambda a, b: [a[b.index(x)] for x in sorted(b)]
> >>> sortby(ppl, age)
> ['john', 'lary', 'jane', 'mary']
> >>> sortby(ppl, height)
> ['john', 'mary', 'jane', 'lary']
>
> >>> age # age is not changed
> [15, 30, 23, 25]
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