Completed day 2, task 1

Day-2/day2-1.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Variables to hold our position.
+x = 0
+z = 0
+
+# Read in the input file. Split each line on the space.
+with open('input.txt', 'r') as inputFile:
+    values = []
+    for line in inputFile:
+        splitLine = line.split()
+
+        # Check the first word of each line to decide what to do.
+        if splitLine[0] == "forward":
+            x = x + int(splitLine[1])
+        elif splitLine [0] == "down":
+            z = z + int(splitLine[1])
+        elif splitLine [0] == "up":
+            z = z - int(splitLine[1])
+
+# Print our final values.
+print("X: " + str(x))
+print("Z: " + str(z))
+print("X * Z = " + str(x*z))