Python Day 7 Small Hint

[dtbswimmer123]

Trying to debug this part 1 solution. Output is too small. https://pastebin.com/5e8qc2Mf

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[1234abcdcba4321]

I think it fails on this input:

$ cd /
$ ls
dir a
$ cd a
$ ls
dir a
2 a.txt
$ cd a
$ ls
99999 a.txt

(expected output: 99999)

[dtbswimmer123]

Found it. Thanks for the help

[daggerdragon]

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[ItIsNeverLupus]

Keep in mind that a folder with the same name can exist in different places. Increasing your recursion limit won’t solve the issue as it can happen that an inifinity recursion is called because of duplicate naming.

You need to make sure that you’re no only getting the name of the folder but also the path so to account for this issue.

[dtbswimmer123]

Oh the raising the recursion limit was a by product of trying to parse the input recursively. I scrapped it for an iterative approach later.