Shuffle rows by a column in pandas

Question

I have the following example of dataframe.

    c1     c2
0   1       a
1   2       b
2   3       c
3   4       d
4   5       e

Given a template

Answer 1

If values are unique in list and also in c1 column use reindex:

df = df.set_index('c1').reindex(c1).reset_index()
print (df)
   c1 c2
0   3  c
1   2  b
2   5  e
3   4  d
4   1  a

General solution working with duplicates in list and also in column:

c1 = [3, 2, 5, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3]

#create df from list 
list_df = pd.DataFrame({'c1':c1})
print (list_df)
   c1
0   3
1   2
2   5
3   4
4   1
5   3
6   2
7   3

#helper column for count duplicates values
df['g'] = df.groupby('c1').cumcount()
list_df['g'] = list_df.groupby('c1').cumcount()

#merge together, create index from column and remove g column
df = list_df.merge(df).drop('g', axis=1)
print (df)
   c1 c2
0   3  c
1   2  b
2   5  e
3   4  d
4   1  a
5   3  c