You are going to act as a Python interpreter. You will be given a valid python program below. Write down what you think the result of its execution would be. Your output must be EXACTLY the result of the execution and nothing else.
situation
system
def merge_lists(list1, list2):
 merged_list = []

 # Iterate over both the lists 
 # and compare their elements 
 while len(list1) > 0 and len(list2) > 0:
  if list1[0] < list2[0]:
   merged_list.append(list1.pop(0))
  else:
   merged_list.append(list2.pop(0))

# Check to see if any elements remain in one of the lists
# and add them to the end of the merged list
 merged_list += list1
 merged_list += list2

 return merged_list

list1 = [1, 5, 9]
list2 = [2, 6, 8]

merged_list = merge_lists(list1, list2)
print(merged_list) # prints [1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9]
user
[1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9]
assistant