first_list = [] second_list = [] result = 0 with open("part1_input.txt", "r") as file_input: for row in file_input: first_column, second_column = map(int, row.split(" ")) first_list.append(first_column) second_list.append(second_column) first_list.sort() second_list.sort() for i in range(len(first_list)): result += abs(first_list[i] - second_list[i]) print(result)