In-place way to apply a permutation to a list? (inverse of sorting-by-key)

Question

Here\'s a example of what I want to do

spam_list = [\"We\", \"are\", \"the\", \"knights\", \"who\", \"say\", \"Ni\"]
spam_order = [0,1,2,4,5,6,3]
spam_list.m         


        

Answer 1

You could try:

spam_list = [spam_list[i] for i in spam_order]