answerGroups = [] with open("input.txt", "r") as f: answerGroups = [answerGroup.split("\n") for answerGroup in f.read().split("\n\n")] possibleAnswers = "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm" totalGroupYesCount = 0 for answerGroup in answerGroups: for possibleAnswer in possibleAnswers: totalGroupYesCount += all(answer.find(possibleAnswer) > -1 for answer in answerGroup) print(totalGroupYesCount)