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### Solutions
* [Lua](lua/ch-2.lua)
* [Perl](perl/ch-2.pl)
+* [Python](python/ch-2.py)
### Blog
diff --git a/challenge-103/abigail/python/ch-2.py b/challenge-103/abigail/python/ch-2.py
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+#!/opt/local/bin/python
+
+#
+# See ../README.md
+#
+
+#
+# Run as python ch-2.py < input-file
+#
+
+#
+# We're reading a start time, the current time, and a file name
+# from STDIN, separated by white space. The file contains the
+# tracks played.
+#
+
+import fileinput
+
+for line in fileinput . input ():
+ start_time, current_time, file_name = line . split ()
+
+ #
+ # You need a 64 bit integer for this; 32 bits of holds
+ # a five week vacation in milliseconds, but the author
+ # of the puzzle lives somewhere were people take 14 week
+ # holidays...
+ #
+ time_diff = (int (current_time) - int (start_time)) * 1000
+
+ #
+ # Parse the media file; store the track into an array tracks.
+ #
+ tracks = []
+ total_time = 0
+ for track in open (file_name, "r"):
+ play_time, title = track . strip () . split (",", 2)
+ play_time = int (play_time)
+ tracks . append ([play_time, title])
+ total_time = total_time + play_time
+
+ #
+ # We're not interested in playing full loops.
+ #
+ time_diff = time_diff % total_time
+
+ #
+ # Find the current track playing. If $time_diff is less than the
+ # play time of the track, this is the track currently playing. If
+ # so, print the track name (with quotes, as given in the example --
+ # although they don't belong there, as they're from the CSV encoding;
+ # for that reason, we won't deescape anything else either). Otherwise
+ # (track length is shorter than $time_diff), we subtrack the length
+ # of the track from $time_diff, and continue checking the next track.
+ #
+ for track in tracks:
+ if time_diff - track [0] < 0:
+ time_diff = int (time_diff / 1000)
+ hours = int (time_diff / 3600)
+ minutes = int ((time_diff % 3600) / 60)
+ seconds = time_diff % 60
+
+ if hours > 0:
+ format_str = "{0}\n{1:02d}:{2:02d}:{3:02d}"
+ else:
+ format_str = "{0}\n{2:02d}:{3:02d}"
+
+ print (format_str . format (track [1], hours, minutes, seconds))
+ break
+ else:
+ time_diff = time_diff - track [0]
+