from collections import Counter def calculate_rank(hand, part2=False): card_ranks = {'2': 1, '3': 2, '4': 3, '5': 4, '6': 5, '7': 6, '8': 7, '9': 8, 'T': 9, 'J': 10, 'Q': 11, 'K': 12, 'A': 13} if part2: # in part2, jokers are the weakest card card_ranks['J'] = 0 # substitute cards with their ranks to make them sortable hand = [card_ranks[c] for c in hand] cnt = Counter(hand) if part2 and cnt[0] != 5: # edge case if hand == 'JJJJJ' # substitute jokers with the most common card that isn't a joker most_common_card = cnt.most_common(2)[0][0] if cnt.most_common(2)[0][0] != 0 else cnt.most_common(2)[1][0] new_hand = [most_common_card if c == 0 else c for c in hand] cnt = Counter(new_hand) rank = 0 match sorted(cnt.values()): case [5]: rank = 7 case [1, 4]: rank = 6 case [2, 3]: rank = 5 case [1, 1, 3]: rank = 4 case [1, 2, 2]: rank = 3 case [1, 1, 1, 2]: rank = 2 case [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]: rank = 1 # return rank, and hand as a tiebreaker return (rank, hand) def parse_input(inp): hands = [l.strip().split() for l in inp.strip().split("\n")] return hands def calculate_wins(hands, part2=False): total = 0 hands = sorted(hands, key=lambda hb: calculate_rank(hb[0], part2=part2)) for rank, hand in enumerate(hands): hand, bid = hand total += (rank + 1) * int(bid) return total if __name__ == "__main__": sample_input = """ 32T3K 765 T55J5 684 KK677 28 KTJJT 220 QQQJA 483 """ res = calculate_wins(parse_input(sample_input)) print(f"part 1 example: {res}") assert res == 6440 res = calculate_wins(parse_input(sample_input), part2=True) print(f"part 2 example: {res}") assert res == 5905 import sys if len(sys.argv) == 2: with open(sys.argv[1]) as f: inp = parse_input(f.read()) res = calculate_wins(inp) print(f"Part 1, res={res}") res = calculate_wins(inp, part2=True) print(f"Part 2, res={res}")