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# --- Day 2: Password Philosophy ---
# Your flight departs in a few days from the coastal airport; the easiest way
# down to the coast from here is via toboggan.
# The shopkeeper at the North Pole Toboggan Rental Shop is having a bad day.
# "Something's wrong with our computers; we can't log in!" You ask if you can
# take a look.
# Their password database seems to be a little corrupted: some of the passwords
# wouldn't have been allowed by the Official Toboggan Corporate Policy that was
# in effect when they were chosen.
# To try to debug the problem, they have created a list (your puzzle input) of
# passwords (according to the corrupted database) and the corporate policy when
# that password was set.
# For example, suppose you have the following list:
# 1-3 a: abcde
# 1-3 b: cdefg
# 2-9 c: ccccccccc
# Each line gives the password policy and then the password. The password
# policy indicates the lowest and highest number of times a given letter must
# appear for the password to be valid. For example, 1-3 a means that the
# password must contain a at least 1 time and at most 3 times.
# In the above example, 2 passwords are valid. The middle password, cdefg, is
# not; it contains no instances of b, but needs at least 1. The first and third
# passwords are valid: they contain one a or nine c, both within the limits of
# their respective policies.
# How many passwords are valid according to their policies?
with open("files/P2.txt", "r") as f:
passwds = [line.split() for line in f.read().strip().split("\n")]
def part_1() -> None:
correct_passwds = 0
for passwd in passwds:
min_, max_ = passwd[0].split("-")
if passwd[2].count(passwd[1][:-1]) >= int(min_) and passwd[2].count(
passwd[1][:-1]
) <= int(max_):
correct_passwds += 1
print(f"There are {correct_passwds} valid passwords in the database")
# --- Part Two ---
# While it appears you validated the passwords correctly, they don't seem to be
# what the Official Toboggan Corporate Authentication System is expecting.
# The shopkeeper suddenly realizes that he just accidentally explained the
# password policy rules from his old job at the sled rental place down the
# street! The Official Toboggan Corporate Policy actually works a little
# differently.
# Each policy actually describes two positions in the password, where 1 means
# the first character, 2 means the second character, and so on. (Be careful;
# Toboggan Corporate Policies have no concept of "index zero"!) Exactly one of
# these positions must contain the given letter. Other occurrences of the
# letter are irrelevant for the purposes of policy enforcement.
# Given the same example list from above:
# 1-3 a: abcde is valid: position 1 contains a and position 3 does not.
# 1-3 b: cdefg is invalid: neither position 1 nor position 3 contains b.
# 2-9 c: ccccccccc is invalid: both position 2 and position 9 contain c.
# How many passwords are valid according to the new interpretation of the
# policies?
def part_2() -> None:
correct_passwds = 0
for passwd in passwds:
pos1, pos2 = passwd[0].split("-")
checks = 0
if passwd[2][int(pos1) - 1] == passwd[1][:-1]:
checks += 1
if passwd[2][int(pos2) - 1] == passwd[1][:-1]:
checks += 1
if checks == 1:
correct_passwds += 1
print(f"There are {correct_passwds} valid passwords in the database")
if __name__ == "__main__":
part_1()
part_2()