import math def main(): print 'Please input all bits as strings, and separate by commas' for loop in range(1,6): bits = [] output = '' stars = 0 inputL = input('Input ' + str(loop) + ': ') for x in inputL[1:]: bits.append(str(x)) bitlen = len(bits[0]) bitnum = len(set(bits)) for x in range(bitlen): num = bits[0][x] same = True for y in range(1,bitnum): if num != bits[y][x]: output += '*' stars += 1 same = False break if same: output += num if bitnum < math.pow(2,stars): print 'NONE' else: print output raw_input() main()