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yuchen-xue/zip_sorted.py

Created August 12, 2018 07:42
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Combine `zip()` and `sorted()` to get a new long sorted list.
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zip_sorted.py
list1 = [3, 2, 4, 1, 1]
list2 = ['three', 'two', 'four', 'one', 'one2']
zipped = zip(list1, list2) # zip two lists
sorted_zip = sorted(zipped) # sort
sorted_zip_comb = zip(*sorted_zip) # unzip, then zip again
print(list(sorted_zip_comb))
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