Completed day 6, task 2

Day-6/day6-2.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Open the file and read the one line into an array.
+fish = []
+with open('/home/jake/Documents/AoC-2021/Day-6/input.txt') as inputFile:
+    fish = inputFile.readline().strip('\n').split(',')
+    fish = [ int(x) for x in fish ]
+
+fishFrequency = []
+for i in range(0, 9):
+    fishFrequency.append(0)
+
+for f in fish:
+    fishFrequency[f]+=1
+
+# Loop over the array decrementing and adding fish as required for 80 days.
+days = 0
+origFish = []
+for num in fishFrequency:
+    origFish.append(num)
+while days < 256:
+    for i in range(1,len(fishFrequency)):
+            fishFrequency[i-1] = origFish[i]
+    fishFrequency[6] += origFish[0]
+    fishFrequency[8] = origFish[0]
+
+    origFish=[]
+    for num in fishFrequency:
+        origFish.append(num)
+
+    days+=1
+
+totalFish = 0
+for total in fishFrequency:
+    totalFish += total
+
+# Print the results.
+print("Total fish afer " + str(days) + " days: " + str(totalFish))