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

One obvious approach would be to zip both the list sort it and then unzip it

>>> name, score = zip(*sorted(zip(name, score_list)))
>>> name
('Beth', 'George', 'Harriet', 'Henry', 'Megan')
>>> score
(6, 10, 6, 5, 9)