How do I sort these?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

KraftDiner wrote:
> I have two lists.
> I want to sort by a value in the first list and have the second list
> sorted as well... Any suggestions on how I should/could do this?

I guess you mean that you have two lists of same size where each index 
position pointing to corrsponding items - like two excel columns? Then 
this helps:

sl = zip(list_a, list_b)
sl.sort()
list_a, list_b = unzip(*sl)

Regards,

Diez