example = """ 3 4 4 3 2 5 1 3 3 9 3 3 """ parsed = [[],[]] for x in open('input.txt', 'r').readlines(): if x: a = [y for y in x.split(" ") if y] parsed[0].append(a[0]) parsed[1].append(a[1]) parsed[0] = sorted(parsed[0]) parsed[1] = sorted(parsed[1]) asd = [] for x, y in zip(parsed[0], parsed[1]): x = int(x) y = int(y) if x > y: asd.append(x-y) else: asd.append(y-x) num = sum(asd) print(num)