from datetime import datetime with open(r'AInvestigation/data.txt', 'r') as input: lines = input.read().split('\n')[:-1] day = 0 times = [] for line in lines: if line[0] == "=": day+=1 times.append({}) continue date,time,_,_,name,part = line.split() times[day-1][(name,part[1])] = datetime.strptime(date+" "+time,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") for num,day in enumerate(times): best = [datetime.strptime("23:59:59","%H:%M:%S")-datetime.strptime("00:00:01","%H:%M:%S"),""] for name,part in day.keys(): if part == '2': diff = [day[name,'2'] - day[name,'1'],name] best = min(best,diff, key=lambda x:x[0]) print("Best difference of day "+str(num+1)+": "+str(best[0])+" (by "+best[1]+")") # print(times)