Solution to Day 6: Memory Reallocation - part 1

advent_of_code_d6.py

#aoc_6.py

inp=[4,	10,	4,	1,	8,	4,	9,	14,	5,	1,	14,	15,	0,	15,	3,	5]

seen = []

cycles = 0
print inp
while True:
	pattern = ','.join([str(i) for i in inp])
	if pattern in seen:
		print cycles
		break
	cycles +=1
	seen.append(pattern)
	maximum = max(inp)
	max_index = inp.index(maximum)
	inp[max_index] = 0
	for i in range(maximum):
		inp[(i+max_index+1)%len(inp)] += 1

	print inp