Solve 2024:16 pt2 "Reindeer Maze"

Part 1 was easily solved by Dijkstras (using heapq).
Tricky part was to find the way to serialize the
queue items for the heappush and heappop to behave
as required.

Part 2 was incredible hard to figure out, and I
could not do it by myself. From the subreddit, it
is hinted that a traditional set of visited nodes
to determine algorithm exit would not work.

After some laboration and readin some hints, I
managed to find a solution where the code keeps
tracks using a defaultdict.

2024-python/output/day_16.py

@@ -1,85 +1,78 @@
-import re
-from collections import Counter, defaultdict, deque
 from heapq import heappop, heappush
-from itertools import chain, combinations, compress, permutations
 
-from output import ADJ, DD, D, ccw, cw, ints, matrix, mdbg, mhd, vdbg
+from output import D, matrix
 
 
 def solve(data):
     grid, H, W = matrix(data)
     S = [(r, c) for r in range(H) for c in range(W) if grid[r][c] == "S"][0]
     E = [(r, c) for r in range(H) for c in range(W) if grid[r][c] == "E"][0]
-    p1 = float('inf')
-    Q = deque([(0, (S,), 1)])
+    Q = [(0, S, 1)]
+    p1 = float("inf")
+    SE = dict()
+    ES = dict()
     seen = set()
-    lowest = []
     while Q:
-        cost, path, facing = heappop(Q)
-        pos = path[-1]
-        if (pos, facing) in seen:
-            continue
-        seen.add((pos, facing))
-        if pos == E:
-            p1 = min(cost, p1)
-            lowest.append(path)
+        cost, pos, dir = heappop(Q)
         r, c = pos
-        for d, delta in enumerate(D):
+        if grid[r][c] == "#":
+            continue
+        if (r, c, dir) in seen:
+            continue
+        seen.add((r, c, dir))
+        if (r, c, dir) not in SE:
+            SE[(r, c, dir)] = cost
+        if pos == E:
+            p1 = min(p1, cost)
+            continue
+        for inc, delta, facing in [
+            (1, D[dir], dir),
+            (1000, (0, 0), (dir + 1) % 4),
+            (1000, (0, 0), (dir - 1) % 4),
+        ]:
+            nc = cost + inc
             dr, dc = delta
-            if grid[r + dr][c + dc] == "#":
-                continue
-            if abs(facing - d) == 2:
-                continue
-            if d != facing:
-                heappush(Q, (cost + 1000, path, d))
-            else:
-                heappush(Q, (cost + 1, path + ((r + dr, c + dc),), d))
-    return p1, None
+            heappush(Q, (nc, (r + dr, c + dc), facing))
+    Q = [(0, E, 0), (0, E, 1), (0, E, 2), (0, E, 3)]
+    seen = set()
+    while Q:
+        cost, pos, dir = heappop(Q)
+        r, c = pos
+        if grid[r][c] == "#":
+            continue
+        if (r, c, dir) in seen:
+            continue
+        seen.add((r, c, dir))
+        if (r, c, (dir + 2) % 4) not in ES:
+            ES[(r, c, (dir + 2) % 4)] = cost
+        if pos == S:
+            continue
+        for inc, delta, facing in [
+            (1, D[dir], dir),
+            (1000, (0, 0), (dir + 1) % 4),
+            (1000, (0, 0), (dir - 1) % 4),
+        ]:
+            nc = cost + inc
+            dr, dc = delta
+            heappush(Q, (nc, (r + dr, c + dc), facing))
+    p2 = set()
+    for r in range(H):
+        for c in range(W):
+            for d in range(4):
+                if (
+                    (r, c, d) in SE
+                    and (r, c, d) in ES
+                    and SE[(r, c, d)] + ES[(r, c, d)] == p1
+                ):
+                    p2.add((r, c))
+    return p1, len(p2)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    import os
-
-    # use dummy data
-    inp = """
-    #################
-    #...#...#...#..E#
-    #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#
-    #.#.#.#...#...#.#
-    #.#.#.#.###.#.#.#
-    #...#.#.#.....#.#
-    #.#.#.#.#.#####.#
-    #.#...#.#.#.....#
-    #.#.#####.#.###.#
-    #.#.#.......#...#
-    #.#.###.#####.###
-    #.#.#...#.....#.#
-    #.#.#.#####.###.#
-    #.#.#.........#.#
-    #.#.#.#########.#
-    #S#.............#
-    #################
-
-
-
-    """.strip()
-
-    # uncomment to instead use stdin
-    # import sys; inp = sys.stdin.read().strip()
-
-    # uncomment to use AoC provided puzzle input
     with open("./input/16.txt", "r") as f:
         inp = f.read().strip()
 
-    # uncomment to do initial data processing shared by part 1-2
     p1, p2 = solve(inp)
 
     print(p1)
-    os.system(f"echo {p1} | wl-copy")
     print(p2)
-    os.system(f"echo {p2} | wl-copy")
-
-    # uncomment and replace 0 with actual output to refactor code
-    # and ensure nonbreaking changes
-    # assert p1 == 0
-    # assert p2 == 0