Question

I have 3 lists, each with equal elements: email addresses, salaries and IDs

I’d like to sort the email addresses alphabetically and in some way sort the other 2 lists (salaries and IDs).

E.g.,
Emails:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Salaries:
50000
60000

IDs:
2
1

The puzzle:
I’d like to sort Emails such that [e-mail] is first and [e-mail] is last and Salaries is 60000 then 50000 and IDs is 1 then 2.

Additional detail:
1. Length of lists are the same and can be longer than two elements.
2. I will subsequently pass IDs to functions to retrieve further lists. Those lists won’t need sorting as they will adopt the order of the IDs list.

Answer 1

Try:

emails = ["[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"]
salaries = [50, 60]
ids = [2, 1]

intermediate = zip(emails, salaries, ids)
intermediate.sort()

result = zip(*intermediate)