#!/usr/bin/env python # 2022 - Advent Of Code 1 - part 2 # file = 'input_example.txt' file = 'input2.txt' calories = [] with open(file, encoding="utf-8") as f: accum = 0 for line in f.readlines(): if line == '\n': # next elf calories.append(accum) accum = 0 else: accum += int(line) calories.append(accum) calories.sort(reverse=True) print(calories[0:3]) print(sum(calories[0:3]))