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

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。

另外，如果你不介意使用numpy数组(或者实际上已经在处理numpy数组…)，这里有另一个很好的解决方案:

people = ['Jim', 'Pam', 'Micheal', 'Dwight']
ages = [27, 25, 4, 9]

import numpy
people = numpy.array(people)
ages = numpy.array(ages)
inds = ages.argsort()
sortedPeople = people[inds]

我在这里找到的: http://scienceoss.com/sort-one-list-by-another-list/

这个函数应该适用于数组。

def sortBoth(x,y,reverse=False):
    '''
    Sort both x and y, according to x. 
    '''
    xy_sorted=array(sorted(zip(x,y),reverse=reverse)).T
    return xy_sorted[0],xy_sorted[1]

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))]

我认为原题的题目不准确。如果你有两个条目数量相同的列表，并且列表1中的每个条目都以相同的顺序与列表2相关(例如a = 0, b = 1，等等)，那么问题应该是“如何对字典排序?”'，而不是'如何根据另一个列表的值对列表进行排序?'。在这种情况下，下面的解决方案是最有效的:

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

dict1 = dict(zip(X,Y))
result = sorted(dict1, key=dict1.get)
print(result)

结果:

['a', 'd', 'h', 'b', 'c', 'e', 'i', 'f', 'g']