#!/usr/bin/env python # 2024 - Advent Of Code 1 # file = 'input_example.txt' file = 'input.txt' firsts = [] seconds = [] accum = 0 with open(file, encoding="utf-8") as f: for line in f.readlines(): a, b, c, d = line.strip().split(' ') firsts.append(int(a)) seconds.append(int(d)) firsts.sort() seconds.sort() for x, y in zip(firsts, seconds): accum += abs(y - x) print(f"sum: {accum}")