Advent of Code 2024 Day 21

Author

Nathan Moore

— Day 21: Keypad Conundrum —

In summary, there are the following keypads:

One directional keypad that you are using.
Two directional keypads that robots are using.
One numeric keypad (on a door) that a robot is using.

Find the fewest number of button presses you’ll need to perform in order to cause the robot in front of the door to type each code. What is the sum of the complexities of the five codes on your list?

+---+---+---+ 
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 
+---+---+---+ 
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 
+---+---+---+ 
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 
+---+---+---+
    | 0 | A |     
    +---+---+

Keypad above and direction pad below

    +---+---+     
    | ^ | A | 
+---+---+---+ 
| < | v | > | 
+---+---+---+

with open('data-2024-21.txt', 'r') as f:
    inp = f.read().splitlines()

Not quite sure how to code this one. Manual seems like it would take a long time.