from collections import Counter def calculate_rank(hand): 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} # substitute cards with their ranks hand = [card_ranks[c] for c in hand] cnt = Counter(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, hand) def part1(inp): total = 0 hands = [l.strip().split() for l in inp.strip().split("\n")] hands = sorted(hands, key=lambda hb: calculate_rank(hb[0])) 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 = part1(sample_input) print(f"part 1 example: {res}") assert res == 6440 import sys if len(sys.argv) == 2: with open(sys.argv[1]) as f: res = part1(f.read()) print(f"Part 1, res={res}")