input = open("./input.txt", "r") def determinePriority(item): if (item.isupper()): return priorityValue[item.lower()] + 26 return priorityValue[item] total = 0 priorityValue = { "a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, "d": 4, "e": 5, "f": 6, "g": 7, "h": 8, "i": 9, "j": 10, "k": 11, "l": 12, "m": 13, "n": 14, "o": 15, "p": 16, "q": 17, "r": 18, "s": 19, "t": 20, "u": 21, "v": 22, "w": 23, "x": 24, "y": 25, "z": 26 } for line in input: lineLength = len(line) - 1 lineLength = int(lineLength / 2) pack1 = line[:lineLength] pack2 = line[lineLength:] dupItem = "" for item in pack1: if (pack2.__contains__(item)): dupItem = item break total += determinePriority(dupItem) print(total)