把两个列表压缩在一起，排序，然后取你想要的部分:

>>> yx = zip(Y, X)
>>> yx
[(0, 'a'), (1, 'b'), (1, 'c'), (0, 'd'), (1, 'e'), (2, 'f'), (2, 'g'), (0, 'h'), (1, 'i')]
>>> yx.sort()
>>> yx
[(0, 'a'), (0, 'd'), (0, 'h'), (1, 'b'), (1, 'c'), (1, 'e'), (1, 'i'), (2, 'f'), (2, 'g')]
>>> x_sorted = [x for y, x in yx]
>>> x_sorted
['a', 'd', 'h', 'b', 'c', 'e', 'i', 'f', 'g']

把这些结合起来得到:

[x for y, x in sorted(zip(Y, X))]

我创建了一个更通用的函数，它根据另一个列表对两个以上的列表进行排序，灵感来自@Whatang的答案。

def parallel_sort(*lists):
    """
    Sorts the given lists, based on the first one.
    :param lists: lists to be sorted

    :return: a tuple containing the sorted lists
    """

    # Create the initially empty lists to later store the sorted items
    sorted_lists = tuple([] for _ in range(len(lists)))

    # Unpack the lists, sort them, zip them and iterate over them
    for t in sorted(zip(*lists)):
        # list items are now sorted based on the first list
        for i, item in enumerate(t):    # for each item...
            sorted_lists[i].append(item)  # ...store it in the appropriate list

    return sorted_lists

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

你可以用一行写出来:

X, Y = zip(*sorted(zip(Y, X)))

我喜欢有一个排序的下标列表。这样，我可以按照与源列表相同的顺序对任何列表进行排序。一旦你有了一个排序的索引列表，一个简单的列表推导就可以做到:

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

sorted_y_idx_list = sorted(range(len(Y)),key=lambda x:Y[x])
Xs = [X[i] for i in sorted_y_idx_list ]

print( "Xs:", Xs )
# prints: Xs: ["a", "d", "h", "b", "c", "e", "i", "f", "g"]

注意，排序的索引列表也可以使用numpy.argsort()获得。

上面的大多数解决方案都很复杂，我认为如果列表的长度不同或不包含完全相同的项目，它们就不会起作用。下面的解决方案很简单，不需要任何导入。

list1 = ['B', 'A', 'C']  # Required sort order
list2 = ['C', 'B']       # Items to be sorted according to list1

result = list1
for item in list1:
    if item not in list2: result.remove(item)

print(result)

输出:

['B', 'C']

注意:任何不在list1中的项都将被忽略，因为算法不知道要使用的排序顺序。

最短的代码

[x for _, x in sorted(zip(Y, X))]

例子:

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

Z = [x for _,x in sorted(zip(Y,X))]
print(Z)  # ["a", "d", "h", "b", "c", "e", "i", "f", "g"]

一般来说

[x for _, x in sorted(zip(Y, X), key=lambda pair: pair[0])]

解释道:

压缩这两个列表。 使用sorted()根据zip文件创建一个新的排序列表。 使用列表推导式从已排序、压缩的列表中提取每对的第一个元素。

有关如何设置\use key参数以及一般的排序函数的更多信息，请参阅以下内容。