I'm trying to solve the Knapsack problem with the dynamical programming(DP) approach, with Python 3.x. My TA pointed us towards this code for a head start. I've tried to implement it, as below:

def take_input(infile):
    f_open = open(infile, 'r')
    lines = []
    for line in f_open:
        lines.append(line.strip())
    f_open.close()
    return lines

def create_list(jewel_lines):
    #turns the jewels into a list of lists
    jewels_list = []
    for x in jewel_lines:
        weight = x.split()[0]
        value = x.split()[1]
        jewels_list.append((int(value), int(weight)))
    jewels_list = sorted(jewels_list, key = lambda x : (-x[0], x[1]))
    return jewels_list

def dynamic_grab(items, max_weight):
    table = [[0 for weight in range(max_weight+1)] for j in range(len(items)+1)]

    for j in range(1,len(items)+1):
        val= items[j-1][0]
        wt= items[j-1][1]
        for weight in range(1, max_weight+1):
            if wt > weight:
                table[j][weight] = table[j-1][weight]
            else:
                table[j][weight] = max(table[j-1][weight],table[j-1][weight-wt] + val)

    result = []
    weight = max_weight
    for j in range(len(items),0,-1):
        was_added = table[j][weight] != table[j-1][weight]

        if was_added:
            val = items[j-1][0]
            wt = items[j-1][1]
            result.append(items[j-1])
            weight -= wt

    return result

def totalvalue(comb):
    #total of a combo of items
    totwt = totval = 0
    for val, wt in comb:
        totwt += wt
        totval += val
    return (totval, -totwt) if totwt <= max_weight else (0,0)

#required setup of variables    
infile = "JT_test1.txt"
given_input = take_input(infile)
max_weight = int(given_input[0])
given_input.pop(0)
jewels_list = create_list(given_input)

#test lines
print(jewels_list)
print(greedy_grab(jewels_list, max_weight))
bagged = dynamic_grab(jewels_list, max_weight)
print(totalvalue(bagged))

The sample case is below. It is in the format line[0] = bag_max, line[1:] is in form(weight, value):

575
125 3000
50 100
500 6000
25 30

I'm confused as to the logic of this code in that it returns me a tuple and I'm not sure what the output tuple represents. I've been looking at this for a while and just don't understand what the code is pointing me at. Any help would be appreciated.