with open(r'c:\Users\BDAdmin\Documents\lesson13-1\sales_list.txt','r',encoding='utf-8') as i: a=i.readlines() final_sum=[] for i in a: data=i.split() sum=0 for j in data[1:]: sum += int(j) result=data[0]+':'+str(sum)+'\n' final_sum.append(result) print(final_sum) with open(r'c:\Users\BDAdmin\Documents\lesson13-1\new_list.txt','w',encoding='utf-8') as d: d.write('bbb')