In 2015 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.
In 2016 I tried to be a bit smarter and tried to reduce the amount of boilerplate code - I had 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 had written some useful functions such as clamp to force a value to be within minimum and maximum.
In 2017, I continued solving AOC and developing the module in the hopes that I might secure a better place on the scoreboard.
Simply use AOC_SESSION=deadbeefyoursessionkey python3 runner.py daynumber.