# selective sort algorithm # list to be sorted original = [24, 10, 40, 28, 31, 9, 29, 42, 39, 19, 18, 37, 11, 14, 49, 47, 22, 16, 38, 6, 4, 27, 21, 48, 35, 23, 17, 1, 44, 25, 41, 2, 46, 30, 8, 50, 32, 5, 20, 33, 34, 26, 36, 12, 43, 15, 45, 7, 3, 13] new = [] print("Original list:", original) # sort through the list, finding the smallest number each time for x in range(0, len(original)): for i, item in enumerate(original): if i == 0: lowest = 0 elif original[i] < original[lowest]: lowest = i # remove the smallest number from the original list & add it to the new list new.append(original.pop(lowest)) print("New list:", new)