This is the 5th day of Advent of Code 2020 and this is more interesting than previous one. But I quickly was able to find the solution. I usually solve solution on next day because I am having hard time managing time. And it is nearly hour left for day 6.
As usual, I have saved text file as day5.txt on same directory as my notebook is and my solution notebook is available at this repository.
with open("day5.txt", "r") as fp:
lines = fp.readlines()
lines = [line[:-1] for line in lines]
test = ["BFFFBBFRRR", "FFFBBBFRRR", "BBFFBBFRLL"]
# find row,
# 0 to 127 rows
# f means lower half (0-63)
# b means upper half (63-127)
# r upper half of column (4-7)
# l lower half of column (0-3)
seat_ids = []
for line in lines:
#print(f"Current Text: {line}")
# to get row, take first 7 chars
r = line[:7]
start = 0
end = 127
row, col = 0, 0
for char in r:
#print(f"Char: {char}")
if char == "F":
end = int((start+end+1)/2) - 1
elif char == "B":
start = int((start+end+1)/2)
#print(f"Start: {start} End: {end}")
#print("\n")
row = start
# to get col, take last 3 chars
r = line[7:]
start = 0
end = 7
for char in r:
#print(f"Char: {char}")
if char == "L":
end = int((start+end+1)/2) - 1
elif char == "R":
start = int((start+end+1)/2)
#print(f"Start: {start} End: {end}")
col = start
# seat ID: multiply the row by 8, then add the column
sid = row*8 + col
seat_ids.append(sid)
print(f"Row: {row} Column: {col} Seat ID:{sid}")
print("\n")
print(f"Solution 1: {max(seat_ids)}")
print(f"Solution 2: {[seat for seat in range(min(seat_ids), max(seat_ids)) if seat not in seat_ids][0]}")
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Top comments (2)
Nicely done! I like how you kept track of the start/end as you went along. I couldn't figure out how I'd keep track of which "section" I was narrowing down to. Great work!
Thank you a lots for the support. I found day 4's challenge more harder than this one.