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Advent of Code 2020: Python Solution Day 9

This challenge is the easiest one I encountered on this season. And I was able to find a working algorithm. Still I am not even on top 7k. I started with copying test example and pasting on day9_test.txt and my input on day9.txt both are at same directory as my notebook is.

Lets share your solution too.

Challenge 1

with open("day9.txt", "r") as fp:
    lines = [int(line.rstrip()) for line in fp.readlines()]
# lines

def challenge1(codes, premable):
    previous_stack = []
    i = 0
    start = 0
    end = start+premable
    curr_index = premable
    while curr_index < len(codes)-1:
        stack = codes[start:end]
        if curr_index > len(stack)-1:
            start+=1
            end+=1
            valid = False
            for i in stack[:-1]:
                for j in stack[1:]:
                    #print(codes[curr_index], i, j)
                    if i+j == codes[curr_index]:
                        valid = True
                        break
                    else:
                        valid == False
                if valid:
                    break
            if valid == False:
                return codes[curr_index]

        curr_index+=1
#         print(stack)
#         break

challenge1(lines, 25)
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Challenge 2

Used NumPy for taking sum faster.

import numpy as np
def challenge2(codes, invalid_num):
    contigous_list = []

    for i in range(0, len(codes)-1):
        for j in range(1, len(codes)-1):
            stack = np.array(codes[i:j])
            if np.sum(stack) == invalid_num:
                print(stack, stack.min()+stack.max())
#             print(stack)
challenge2(lines, challenge1(lines, 25))
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Philip Purwoko

You can use class (OOP style) to get better management of your code and make it more readable. Here is my solution

with open('input.txt') as file:
    preamble = list(map(lambda x: int(x[:-1]), file.readlines()))


class Xmas:
    def __init__(self, preamble):
        self.preamble = preamble

    def is_valid(self, int):
        for i in self.preamble[:-1]:
            for j in self.preamble[1:]:
                if i + j == int:
                    return True
        return False

    def shift(self, number):
        self.preamble.append(number)
        self.preamble = self.preamble[1:]

    def find_weakness(self, invalid):
        not_found = True
        for step in range(2, len(self.preamble)+1):
            start = 0
            array = True
            while array and not_found:
                array = self.preamble[start:step]
                if sum(array) == invalid:
                    print(f'Weakness : {min(array)+max(array)}')
                    not_found = False
                    break
                start += 1
                step += 1


# Part 1
preamble_scale = 25
first_invalid = 0
xmas = Xmas(preamble[:preamble_scale])
for i in preamble[preamble_scale:]:
    if not xmas.is_valid(i):
        first_invalid = i
        print(f'{i} is The First Invalid')
        break
    xmas.shift(i)

# Part 2
xmas = Xmas(preamble)
xmas.find_weakness(first_invalid)

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Viper

It is so neat an clear. Thank you for sharing.

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Philip Purwoko

You are welcome