Sorting list based on values from another list?

Question

I have a list of strings like this:

X = [\"a\", \"b\", \"c\", \"d\", \"e\", \"f\", \"g\", \"h\", \"i\"]
Y = [ 0,   1,   1,   0,   1,   2,   2,   0,   1 ]
         


        

Answer 1

more_itertools has a tool for sorting iterables in parallel:

Given

from more_itertools import sort_together


X = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i"]
Y = [ 0,   1,   1,    0,   1,   2,   2,   0,   1]

Demo

sort_together([Y, X])[1]
# ('a', 'd', 'h', 'b', 'c', 'e', 'i', 'f', 'g')