# count answers in that group def count_answers(line): my_list = list(line) my_set = set(my_list) length = len(my_set) return length # count which answers were answered by all def count_answers_all(group): answers = group.split('\n') z = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'} intersect = z.intersection(* [set(answer) for answer in answers if answer != '']) return len(intersect) with open(r"C:\Users\Maya\Desktop\Uni\WS_2021\AoC\input06") as f: lines = f.read() # count answered letters lines1 = lines.replace("\n\n", '\t').replace("\n", "").split("\t") count = sum(count_answers(l) for l in lines1) print(count) # count answered by all groups = lines.split("\n\n") count2 = sum(count_answers_all(g) for g in groups) print(count2)