Day 7, Part 1

from ampIntcode import intcode
from itertools import permutations

#get a two-dimentional array of all permutations of the numbers 1 through 4
perms = list(permutations(range(0,5)))
for i in range(len(perms)):
    perms[i] = list(perms[i])

highOutput = 0
highArray = []
file1 = "input.txt"

for x in perms:
    output = intcode(file1,x[4],intcode(file1,x[3],intcode(file1,x[2],intcode(file1,x[1],intcode(file1,x[0],0)))))
    if(output>highOutput):
        highOutput = output
        highArray = x

print("The highest output permutation was " + str(highArray))
print("with an output of " + str(highOutput))