day 4, part 1 and part 2 (2 failing)

2018/day-4/python/process_input.py

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+import sys, os, re, datetime
+
+# Patterns for Regex and STRPTIME function
+timepattern = r"\[(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2})\](.+)"
+strptimepattern = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
+
+def getDateTime(string):
+    return datetime.datetime.strptime(re.match(timepattern, string).group(1), strptimepattern)
+
+def process():
+    newpath = os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..', 'processed_input')
+    path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..', 'input')
+    data = open(path, 'r').read().split('\n')
+    return sorted(data, key=getDateTime)