Hi there, so i updated this code to organize it more but i still cant get it to do what i wanted. It still gives me the same output.

'''
Created on Sep 12, 2010

@author: aaronkilpatrick
'''
from Tkinter import*
import time


def bubbleSort(lst):
    for number in range(len(lst)-1, 0, -1):
        for i in range(number):
            if lst[i] > lst[i + 1]:
                lst[i], lst[i + 1] = lst[i + 1], lst[i]
                print lst
                for j in lst:
                    cv.delete([j])
                animation()
                cv.delete(ALL)
                cv.update()
                
                    
def animation():
    x , y = 220, 500
    barWidth = 15
    
    
    for item in lst:
        
        cv.delete([item])
        bar = cv.create_rectangle(x, y, x+barWidth, y-(item*15), fill="red")
        x += barWidth + 5
        time.sleep(0.2)
        cv.update()
           
#MAIN

#Canvas                    
root = Tk()
root.title("Sorting Algorithm Animation")
w = 800
h = 600
cv = Canvas(width=w, height=h, bg='black')

cv.pack()
cv.update()

lst = [1,2,7,3,6,4,5,10,8,9,12,15,11,13,16,14,20,17,19,18]
bubbleSort(lst)
animation()

root.mainloop()

Thanks for all the help and assistance, i really appreciated it, it helped a lot. Now i am able to understand the algorithms more easily.

sorry this is the actual code that i just recently did:

fileIn = open ("listOfFruits.txt", "r")
fileOut = open ("newListOfFruits.txt", "w")


line =[]
for currentLine in fileIn:
    line.append(currentLine.strip())
    


line.sort()

for items in line:
    fileOut.write(items)

fileIn.close()

fileOut.close()

sorry for replying so late.

But i worked on this a little and i came up with another way but this time i am just having problem with writing the items in the list one by one to the next document.

line = []

fileIn = open ("listOfFruits.txt", "r")
fileOut = open ("newListOfFruits.txt", "w")



for currentLine in fileIn:

    line.append(currentLine)
    
    for items in line:
        line.sort()


    fileOut.write(items.strip() + "\n")
print line


fileIn.close()
fileOut.close()

I understood the part about sorting it once and removing all them from being a list into one list. But now i am still stuck on printing the output to the file

I am trying to write the words one at a time. so all the items in my list are written separately. So if my list is [orange, mango, apple] i want the file to be written like:

apple
mango
orange

*is this what you are asking me?????