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Suppose there are two lists:

a=["Andrei","Oleg","Vadim","Vladimir"] b=[4,2,1,3]

I can’t figure out how to sort on list b in order to place names in list a accordingly, and in the end it turned out:

 a=["Vadim","Oleg","Vladimir","Andrei"] b=[1,2,3,4]

Reported as a duplicate by jfs python Jan 23 '17 at 3:26 pm

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  • do a sorting function and drive two arrays there one after another - Paulo Berezini
  • Use hashmap - Paulo Berezini

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If I understand the question correctly, there is an option to do this:

 a=["Andrei","Oleg","Vadim","Vladimir"] b=[4,2,1,3] a.sort() b.sort()
  • It is just sorting two lists separately. The author seems to want to sort them out as tuples by the second element. - Nick Volynkin ♦
 [z[1] for z in sorted(zip(b, a))]