Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-12 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
11:16:30 +1100 From: Steven D'Aprano To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences Message-ID: <4d7abb5e.9080...@pearwood.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > I want to sort two sequences with different

Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fine It doesn't so

Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/11/2011 3:39 PM Dinesh B Vadhia said... I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fin

[Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fine but my sequences contain 10,000+ element