Last year I did pretty well in Advent of Code until the last puzzle. The last puzzle proved to be a bit tricky because of lack of coffee - the puzzles were released at 7 AM local time, and I couldn't get up early enough on the Christmas Day and thus wasn't ranked among final top 100.
This year I am a bit smarter and trying to reduce the amount of boilerplate code - I've made a runner executable and a helper module that contains some shortcuts, including reading the input in various ways, so that instead of
with open('input') as f:
for i in f.strip().split(', '):
I can directly use
for i in input_split():
The helpers also imports the contents of collections, itertools, functools
and math so that their contents can be used without prologue.
Finally I've written some useful functions such as clamp to force a value to be
within minimum and maximum.
Simply use python3 runner.py daynumber.