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