def priority(item): if item < 'a': # uppercase return ord(item)-38 else: # lowercase return ord(item)-96 totaal = 0 with open("input.txt", "r") as f: for line in f.readlines(): line = line.strip("\n") h = int(len(line)/2) left = line[:h] right = line[h:] for c in left: if c in right: totaal += priority(c) print(c) break print(totaal)