a = [[75], [95, 64], [17, 47, 82], [18, 35, 87, 10], [20, 4, 82, 47, 65], [19, 1, 23, 75, 3, 34], [88, 2, 77, 73, 7, 63, 67], [99, 65, 4, 28, 6, 16, 70, 92], [41, 41, 26, 56, 83, 40, 80, 70, 33], [41, 48, 72, 33, 47, 32, 37, 16, 94, 29], [53, 71, 44, 65, 25, 43, 91, 52, 97, 51, 14], [70, 11, 33, 28, 77, 73, 17, 78, 39, 68, 17, 57], [91, 71, 52, 38, 17, 14, 91, 43, 58, 50, 27, 29, 48], [63, 66, 4, 68, 89, 53, 67, 30, 73, 16, 69, 87, 40, 31], [4, 62, 98, 27, 23, 9, 70, 98, 73, 93, 38, 53, 60, 4, 23]] path = a[-1][:] for i in xrange(len(a) - 2, 0, -1): newpath = [] for j in xrange(i + 1): better = max(path[j], path[j + 1]) newpath.append(a[i][j] + better) path = newpath print max(path) + a[0][0] ''' path = [[a[0][0], [a[0][0]]]] for i in xrange(1, len(a)): newpath = [] tmp = path[0][1][:] tmp.append(a[i][0]) newpath.append([path[0][0] + a[i][0], tmp]) for j in xrange(1, i): flag = (path[j - 1][0] > path[j][0]) and -1 or 0 tmp = path[j + flag][1][:] tmp.append(a[i][j]) newpath.append([path[j + flag][0] + a[i][j], tmp]) tmp = path[i - 1][1][:] tmp.append(a[i][i]) newpath.append([path[i - 1][0] + a[i][i], tmp]) path = newpath maxx = [0, 0] for i in path: if i[0] > maxx[0]: maxx = i print maxx '''