from string import ascii_letters with open("day3\input.txt") as f: data = f.readlines() def findCommon(leftside:str,rightside:str): for char in leftside: if char in rightside: return ord(char) prio_sum = 0 while data: test_strings = [data.pop(0) for idx in range(3)] print(test_strings) for prio,char in enumerate(ascii_letters): if char in test_strings[0]: if char in test_strings[1]: if char in test_strings[2]: prio_sum += prio+1 print(char, prio) break print(prio_sum)