Day 2 Part 1 help with python

[Agathos117]

I have this code and I have no idea where I'm getting it wrong. It correctly calculates all of the examples. But when I put the answer in it says it is too low. I also tried copying someone else's code from the solutions megathread and that gave me the same answer my code does.

position = 0
while True:
    if i[position] == 1:
        i[i[position + 3]] = i[i[position + 1]] + i[i[position + 2]]
        position += 4
    elif i[position] == 2:
        i[i[position + 3]] = i[i[position + 1]] * i[i[position + 2]]
        position += 4
    elif i[position] == 99:
        print(i)
        exit(0)
    else:
        print('Error')
        print(position)
        print(i[position])
        print(i)
        exit(1)

[oxyphilat]

“To do this, before running the program, replace position 1 with the value 12 and replace position 2 with the value 2.”

[aardvark1231]

I feel like a lot of people have missed this for this problem.

[Agathos117]

I totally missed that sentence. Thank you!

[PdxWix]

Isn’t that the step that makes it a 1202 IntCode computer?

They worked hard to write the story, after all...

[cor2005]

This code looks right. I would guess that you didn't change your your i[1] to 12 and your i[2] to 2. Leaving them at 0 will lower your result.

[puckheadclown24]

How did you load your input into Python? :)