input = [] with open('day6_input.txt', 'r') as f: group = '' for line in f.readlines(): if len(line.strip()) == 0: input.append(group) group = '' else: group += line.strip() input.append(group) def counter(group): return len(set(group)) print(sum(map(counter, input))) print(input[0]) print(set(input[0]))