How to Merge and Sort Two Lists in Python

The merge and sort two lists in Python, you can use a combination of the extend() method to merge the lists and the sorted() function to sort the resulting merged list. Here’s how you can do it:

# Two lists to merge and sort
list1 = [3, 1, 4]
list2 = [1, 5, 9]

# Merge the lists using the extend method
merged_list = list1 + list2

# Sort the merged list using the sorted function
sorted_merged_list = sorted(merged_list)

print(sorted_merged_list)

In this example:

1. list1 and list2 are the two lists you want to merge and sort.
2. We merge the lists by using the + operator to concatenate list1 and list2, resulting in merged_list.
3. We use the sorted() function to sort the merged_list in ascending order. The sorted() function returns a new list with the sorted elements, leaving the original list unchanged.
4. Finally, we print the sorted_merged_list, which contains the sorted elements of both list1 and list2.

The output will be:

[1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9]

If you want to sort the merged list in descending order, you can use the reverse=True argument in the sorted() function like this:

sorted_merged_list = sorted(merged_list, reverse=True)

This will give you the merged list sorted in descending order:

[9, 5, 4, 3, 1, 1]

You can adjust the sorting order based on your specific requirements.