Advent-of-Code/2021/8/main2.py

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# IDEAS(dev):
# - You might not have to determine all the positions if the numbers to decode don't use them
# e.g. while(number to decode NOT IN numbers decodable) { do everything }
# -
# NOTES(dev):
# - It looks like the codes are NOT always printed in the same order. For example, if one shows up
# as 'cg', it might also later show up as 'gc' in the same line.
# 0: 1: 2: 3: 4:
# aaaa .... aaaa aaaa ....
# b c . c . c . c b c
# b c . c . c . c b c
# .... .... dddd dddd dddd
# e f . f e . . f . f
# e f . f e . . f . f
# gggg .... gggg gggg ....
# 5: 6: 7: 8: 9:
# aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa
# b . b . . c b c b c
# b . b . . c b c b c
# dddd dddd .... dddd dddd
# . f e f . f e f . f
# . f e f . f e f . f
# gggg gggg .... gggg gggg
# initialize shared data:
possibilities = {}
all_possibilities = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' ]
# functions:
def ResetData():
possibilities.clear()
for letter in all_possibilities:
possibilities[letter] = list(all_possibilities)
def ParsePossibilities(text):
text_len = len(text)
if(text_len == 2):
good_letters = [ text[0], text[1] ]
print(good_letters)
# first, get rid of the good letters from all the other positions
for letter in ['a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'g']: # all the positions not used by #1
for to_remove in good_letters:
possibilities[letter].remove(to_remove)
# second, get rid of the other letters from the positions used by #1
for letter in ['c', 'f']:
to_remove_list = []
for l in possibilities[letter]:
if(not (l in good_letters)):
to_remove_list.append(l)
for to_remove in to_remove_list:
possibilities[letter].remove(to_remove)
total = 0
with open('example_data', 'r') as fp:
# NOTE(dev): We assume all lines are the same length
for line in fp:
ResetData()
split_line = line.split(' | ')
data = split_line[0].split()
print(data)
codes = split_line[1]
for val in codes.split():
if(len(val) in [2, 3, 4, 7]):
total += 1
for text in data:
ParsePossibilities(text.strip())
asdf = possibilities.items()
asdf = list(asdf)
asdf.sort()
print(asdf)
# part 1 answer:
print(total)
# # DEBUG(dev):
# print(possibilities)