advent

increase = 0
l = a.strip().split()

int_list = [int(i) for i in l]

increase = 0

previous = None
for i in int_list:
    print("previous: {} - Compare: {}".format(previous, i))

    if not previous:

        print("first")
    elif i > previous:
        increase = increase + 1
        print("Increase: {}".format(increase))
    previous = i