python - Sorting Lists into Alphabetical Order -

i have list want sort alphabetical order, not working. have written this, not work well:

#!usr/bin/python f = open("test.txt","r") #opens file name of "test.txt" mylist = [] line in f:     mylist.append(line) f.close() print mylist sublist = []  in range(1, len(mylist)):     print mylist[i]     sublist.append(mylist[i])  sublist.sort() print sublist 

this text file:

test list ball apple cat digger elephant   

and output:

enigmatist:python lbligh$ python test.py ['test list\n', 'ball\n', 'apple\n', 'cat\n', 'digger\n', 'elephant'] ball  apple  cat  digger  elephant ['apple\n', 'ball\n', 'cat\n', 'digger\n', 'elephant']  

any troubleshooting extremely helpful. thanks

n.b. using python 2.7.9

you've forgotten overwrite file, that's all.

with open('test.txt', 'r') inf:     lst = inf.readlines()  # easier iterating , accumulating  lst[1:] = sorted(lst[1:])  # leave first line: "test list" intact  open('test.txt', 'w') outf:     outf.writelines(lst)  # re-write file