this time with no legal info

2/Ex1-redo.py

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+ranQ = []
+
+count = 0
+
+with open("input.txt") as file:
+    input = file.read().strip()
+
+ranges = input.split(",")
+
+for ran in ranges:
+    start, end = ran.split("-")
+    if len(start) == len(end):
+        if len(start) % 2 == 0:
+            ranQ.append((int(start), int(end)))
+    else:
+        if len(start) % 2 == 0:
+            ranQ.append((int(start), 10**len(start)- 1))
+        elif len(end) % 2 == 0:
+            ranQ.append((10**len(start), int(end)))
+            
+
+for start, end in ranQ:
+    done = []
+    print(f"Processing range: {start} to {end}")
+    start_prefix = str(start)[:len(str(start))//2]
+    end_prefix = str(end)[:len(str(end))//2]
+    for prefix in range(int(start_prefix), int(end_prefix) + 1):
+        candidate = int(str(prefix) * 2)
+        if start <= candidate <= end and candidate not in done:
+            print(f"Adding: {candidate}")
+            count += int(candidate)
+            done.append(candidate)
+        
+print(count)