day 4 formatting and day 5 part 1 & part 2

2018/day-4/processed_input

@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
-[1518-11-01 00:00] Guard #10 begins shift
-[1518-11-01 00:05] falls asleep
-[1518-11-01 00:25] wakes up
-[1518-11-01 00:30] falls asleep
-[1518-11-01 00:55] wakes up
-[1518-11-01 23:58] Guard #99 begins shift
-[1518-11-02 00:40] falls asleep
-[1518-11-02 00:50] wakes up
-[1518-11-03 00:05] Guard #10 begins shift
-[1518-11-03 00:24] falls asleep
-[1518-11-03 00:29] wakes up
-[1518-11-04 00:02] Guard #99 begins shift
-[1518-11-04 00:36] falls asleep
-[1518-11-04 00:46] wakes up
-[1518-11-05 00:03] Guard #99 begins shift
-[1518-11-05 00:45] falls asleep
-[1518-11-05 00:55] wakes up
+[2000-01-01 00:00] Guard #1 begins shift
+[2000-01-01 00:01] falls asleep
+[2000-01-01 00:03] wakes up
+[2000-01-02 00:00] Guard #1 begins shift
+[2000-01-02 00:02] falls asleep
+[2000-01-02 00:04] wakes up
+[2000-01-03 00:00] Guard #2 begins shift
+[2000-01-03 00:10] falls asleep
+[2000-01-03 00:20] wakes up

2018/day-4/python/main.py

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-import time, re, datetime, pprint, process_input
+import time, re, datetime, pprint, string, process_input
 
 # Returns processed input, simple script for creating a chronologically ordered input file.
 data = process_input.process()
 
 # Comment this out to use real puzzle data
-# import sys, os
-# path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..', 'processed_input')
-# data = open(path, 'r').read().split('\n')
+import sys, os
+path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..', 'processed_input')
+data = open(path, 'r').read().split('\n')
 
 # Pattern Constants & pprint
 pprint = pprint.PrettyPrinter(width=1000).pprint
@@ -83,6 +83,27 @@ for line in data:
         current_action = action
         last_timechange = time
 
+charset = string.digits + string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase
+def format_print(guard_data):
+    table = []
+    # Header parts
+    minutes = map(lambda num : str(num).zfill(2), range(60))
+    minutes = list(map(lambda num : (num[0], num[1]), minutes))
+    top, bottom = ' '.join(minutes[i][0] for i in range(len(minutes))), ' '.join(minutes[i][1] for i in range(len(minutes)))
+    headerp1 = ["ID".ljust(6), "Total", top]
+    table.append(' | '.join(headerp1))
+    table.append(bottom.rjust(len(table[0])))
+
+    guard_data = sorted(guard_data.guards.items(), key=lambda item : item[0])
+    for guard in guard_data:
+        row = [
+            str(str(guard[0]).ljust(6)),
+            str(guard[1]['total']).ljust(5),
+                ' '.join(['.' if minute == 0 else charset[minute % len(charset)] for minute in guard[1]['minutes']])
+        ]
+        row[2] = row[2].rjust(len(bottom))
+        table.append('   '.join(row))
+    return '\n'.join(table)
 
 id, total = guard_data.best_total()
 minute, minute_count = guard_data.guard_best_minute(guard_data.best_total()[0])
@@ -94,4 +115,6 @@ id, (minute, minute_count) = guard_data.best_minute()
 print(f'Guard {id} spent minute {minute} the most @ {minute_count} times.')
 p2 = id * minute
 
-print(f'\nPart 1 solution: {p1}\nPart 2 solution: {p2}')
+print(f'\nPart 1 solution: {p1}\nPart 2 solution: {p2}')
+
+print(format_print(guard_data))

2018/day-5/python/main.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import os, sys, time, progressbar, string
+
+path = os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..', 'input')
+data = open(path, 'r').read()
+# data = data[:10000]
+data = 'dabAcCaCBAcCcaDA'
+
+def react(string):
+    look = True
+    while look:
+        look = False
+        for i in range(len(string)-1):
+            if string[i].lower() == string[i + 1].lower() and string[i] != string[i + 1]:
+                string = string[:i] + string[i+2:]
+                look = True
+                break
+    return string
+
+# t1 = time.time()
+# data = react(data) #11476
+# t2 = time.time()
+# print('Part 1 Solution: {}'.format(len(data)))
+# print('Solved in {}s\n'.format(round(t2 - t1, 3)))
+
+t1 = time.time()
+lengths = {}
+charset = ''.join(list(set(data)))
+for char in progressbar.progressbar(list(charset)):
+    table = str.maketrans({char : None, char.lower() : None})
+    lengths[char] = len(react(data.translate(table)))
+char, length = min(lengths.items(), key=lambda item : item[1])
+t2 = time.time()
+ 
+print('\nPart 2 Solution: Removing polymer {}{} had the most effect at length {}.'.format(char, char.lower(), length))
+print('Solved in {}s\n'.format(round(t2 - t1, 3)))