searching and sorting listing merging two sorted lists merges two sorted lists to create and return new sorted list def mergesortedlistslistalistb create the new list and initialize the list markers newlist list( merge the two lists together until one is empty while lenlista and lenlistb if lista[alistb[bnewlist appendlista[aa + else newlist appendlistb[bb + if lista contains more itemsappend them to newlist while lenlista newlist appendlista[aa + or if listb contains more itemsappend them to newlist while lenlistb newlist appendlistb[bb + return newlist we can easily modify for similar problems where the new list may not contain all of the items from the other two lists after the first loop terminatesone of the two lists will be empty and one will contain at least one additional value all of the values remaining in that list must be copied to the new merged list this is done by the next two while loopsbut only one will be executed depending on which list contains additional values the position containing the next value to be copied is denoted by the respective index variable or run time analysis to evaluate the solution for merging two sorted listassume lista and listb each contain items the analysis depends on the number of iterations performed by each of the three loopsall of which perform the same action of copying value from one of the two original lists to the new merged list the first loop iterates until all of the values in one of the two original lists have been copied to the third after the first loop terminatesonly one of the next two loops will be executeddepending on which list still contains values the first loop performs the maximum number of iterations when the selection of the next value to be copied alternates between the two lists this results