How to sort a list according to another list? Python

Question

So if I have one list:

name = [\'Megan\', \'Harriet\', \'Henry\', \'Beth\', \'George\']

And I have another list where each value represents the

Answer 1

You can sort them at the same time as tuples by using zip. The sorting will be by name:

tuples = sorted(zip(name, score_list))

And then

name, score_list = [t[0] for t in tuples], [t[1] for t in tuples]