with open("b.txt", "r") as file: num_this = 0 is_subsequence = True lines = file.readlines() num_prev = int(lines[0].replace("\n", "")) for i in range(1, len(lines)): num_this = int(lines[i].replace("\n", "")) is_subsequence = ((num_prev>0)and(num_this<0))or((num_prev<0)and(num_this>0))and(is_subsequence) num_prev = int(lines[i].replace("\n", "")) print(is_subsequence)