kotajacob

def get_can_option():
    #RACE CLOSE
    print ("Who will you vote for if the race is close?")
    can1 = input("CANDIDATE = ")

    #RACE NOT CLOSE
    print ("Who will you vote for if the race is not close?")
    can2 = input("CANDIDATE = ")

    #loop through all the options we want, if for the first elif for the middle, else for the last

kotajacob

words, num = open('enable1.txt', 'r').readlines(), 0
for word in words:
    aword = word[:-2]
    if ''.join(sorted(aword)) == aword:
        num += 1
print num