Advent of Code Python Template

This template provides an easy and quick way to start with Advent of Code problems in Python with Cloud Dev Environment in Gitpod

Quick Start

Create your repository 📝

• Click Use this template and create your repository.

Start Working ⚡💻

• Open a Cloud Dev Environment in Gitpod by clicking the following button:

  

This will ask you about which year and day you want to template. You can also provide a puzzle name which will be used as part of the directory name and the comments within your files.

The files are copied into a subdirectory of the advent_of_code/ directory on your computer. You can change advent_of_code/ to any other name you want.

Scripting

You can also use Copier as part of a script. The documentation shows how to call Copier as part of a Python script.

On the command line, you can use -d to provide answers to questions instead of answering them interactively. On Bash (and possibly other shells), the following will set up all directories for the 2022 event inside of your aoc/ directory:

$ for day in {01..25}; do
>     copier gh:gahjelle/template-aoc-python -d year=2022 -d day=$day -d puzzle_name="" -d puzzle_dir=$day aoc/
> done

After running this, you'll have 25 subdirectories within aoc/2022/ with templates for solving each day of Advent of Code with Python.

Examples

See https://github.com/gahjelle/advent_of_code/tree/main/python for examples using the template. This tutorial, Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles With Python, explains the reasoning behind the template and shows a few examples of using it to solve puzzles.

Credits

Thanks to Matt Gregory for helping to debug this recipe for Windows and creating the Powershell script to create a full year of templates.

And a huge thanks to Eric Wastl for creating the wonderful Advent of Code.