Selection sort program python

Question

So this is supposed to be a sorting program, but for some reason, it is not sorting the file I\'m giving, but just giving me straight numbers as it is. Any help would be appreci

Answer 1

You have simply defined a method. You need to call it from somewhere. I added to your code and tested it. It works. Here you go: The last two lines actually make a call to the code you created: (be careful about indentation)

alist = [42,54,2,45,6,125,32]
print(alist)

def selectionSort(alist):
    for index in range(0, len(alist)):
        ismall = index
        for i in range(index,len(alist)):
            if alist[ismall] > alist[i]:
                ismall = i
        alist[index], alist[ismall] = alist[ismall], alist[index]
    return alist

newList = selectionSort(alist)
print newList