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4/onestar.py

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+elves = []
+count = 0
+with open("input.txt", "r") as f:
+    for line in f.readlines():
+        line = line.strip("\n")
+        # Some python magic to split out the strings and convert them to integers
+        pair = [x.split("-") for x in line.split(",")]
+        pair = [[int(y) for y in x] for x in pair]
+        elves.append(pair)
+        # Elves is now a list of list of lists.
+    for elf in elves:
+        if ((elf[0][0] <= elf[1][0] and elf[0][1] >= elf[1][1]) or 
+            (elf[1][0] <= elf[0][0] and elf[1][1] >= elf[0][1])):
+            print(elf)
+            count += 1
+print(count)