Accompanying code for Advent of Code 2022 Day 1: Calorie Counting Medium article

calorie_counting_part1.py

sample_input = """
1000
2000
3000

4000

5000
6000

7000
8000
9000

10000
""".strip().splitlines()

highest_elf_total = 0
current_elf_total = 0

for calorie in sample_input:
    if calorie == '':  # denotes next elf's input
        highest_elf_total = max(highest_elf_total, current_elf_total)
        current_elf_total = 0  # reset before reading the next elf's calories
    else:
        current_elf_total += int(calorie)

print(highest_elf_total)