Adding solution for Day 4 Part 1

Author: poguepotamus

Day4/Part1.py

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+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
+
+def solve(file_path:Path) -> int:
+	''' Finds the number of overlapping sections for elf cleaning assignments.
+
+	Arguments:
+		file_path(pathlib.Path): The filepath in which to read data from.
+
+	Returns:
+		Integer representing the answer.
+	'''
+	cleaning_assignments = read_data(file_path)
+
+	return(sum([cleaning_contains(assignment) for assignment in cleaning_assignments]))
+
+
+def read_data(data_file_path:Path) -> List:
+	''' Reads in the data for the specific problem and returns the most valuable data type
+
+	Day 4 has us reading in two elves range of cleaning zones. I think the best way to order them is a list of tuples of tuples containing integers.
+
+	Arguments:
+		data_file_path(pathlib.Path): A path to the datafile to read in.
+
+	Returns:
+		Returns a list representing the data file in the most useful way possible.
+	'''
+	output = []
+	with open(data_file_path, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as data_file:
+		for line in data_file.readlines():
+			elves = line.split(',')
+			elves = [tuple([int(section) for section in elf.split('-')]) for elf in elves]
+			output.append(tuple(elves))
+
+	return output
+
+
+def cleaning_contains(cleaning_assignment) -> bool:
+	''' Determines if one cleaning assignment contains the other.
+
+	Arguments:
+		cleaning_assignment(tuple(tuple(int))): A tuple of tuples containing integers for each cleaning assignment.
+
+	Returns:
+		Returns a boolean if one cleaning assignment fully contains the other.
+	'''
+	first_elf = cleaning_assignment[0]
+	second_elf = cleaning_assignment[1]
+
+	# If our first elf contains our second elf
+	if first_elf[0] <= second_elf[0]:
+		if first_elf[1] >= second_elf[1]:
+			return True
+
+	# If our second elf contains our first elf
+	if second_elf[0] <= first_elf[0]:
+		if second_elf[1] >= first_elf[1]:
+			return True
+
+	# If we haven't returned at this point, we don't have an assignment that contains another, we can return false.
+	return False

Day4/example.txt

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+2-4,6-8
+2-3,4-5
+5-7,7-9
+2-8,3-7
+6-6,4-6
+2-6,4-8