first_list = [] second_list = [] result = 0 with open("part2_input.txt", "r") as file_input: for row in file_input: first_column, second_column = map(int, row.split(" ")) first_list.append(first_column) second_list.append(second_column) for i in first_list: result += i * second_list.count(i) print(result)