Counting Inversions Using Merge Sort [closed]

Answer 1

This line:

return lis

This is a problem, because you are expecting sort_and_count to return a tuple containing two values, so when it returns only one value you have a problem with the tuple unpacking in lines like left,c1=sort_and_count(lis[:middle],count). This line should return two values, like the last line of that method:

return m,c