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get_int_list.py
xfile = open('advent_day1.txt')
inp= xfile.read()
# you've got a big string that's many lines of text, and each line is a number.
inp = inp.trim() # get rid of extra space on either side of the big string
lines = inp.split('\n') # make a list by splitting on every linebreak (\n is the newline character)
ints = []
for line in lines:
ints.append(int(line)) # make sure the elements in your list are numbers you can do math with, not just strings
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