with open("input") as f: content = [x.strip().replace(")", " )").replace("(", "( ").split(" ") for x in f] def evaluate(expression, startpos): result = 0 operator = "+" number = 0 i = startpos while i < len(expression): number = None if expression[i] == "(": number, i = evaluate(expression, i + 1) elif expression[i] == ")": return result, i elif expression[i] in ["*", "+"]: operator = expression[i] else: number = int(expression[i]) if number is not None: if operator == "*": result *= number elif operator == "+": result += number i += 1 return result print(sum(map(lambda x: evaluate(x, 0), content)))