jwelch92 / advent-of-code-2023

advent-of-code-2023

Advent of Code 2023

Workflow

First, add session cookie to .session.

Adding a new day

poetry shell
./lib.py DAY
# creates day_02.py from template.py.txt
./lib.py 2

Watch files shortcut

./watch DAY
# Watch day_01.py running main() function
./watch 1

Tips

Group by empty lines

Given input like

1000
2000

1000
2333

44454

Group by empty line using

>>> data.split("\n\n")
["1000\n2000", "1000\n23333", "44454"]

Itertools

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html and https://pypi.org/project/more-itertools/

More itertools builds on itertools to provide things like sliding windows, grouping, augmenting, combining, etc.