import sys import numpy as np import pprint, string arr = [] alpha=list(string.ascii_letters) values=[] with open(sys.argv[1]) as f: for l in f: line=l.split()[0] first, second = line[:len(line)//2],line[len(line)//2:] shared=list(set(first)&set(second))[0] index=alpha.index(shared)+1 values.append(index) arr.append([first,second,shared,int(index)]) #pprint.pprint(arr) print(sum(values))