AoC day 8 feat. the ugliest code I've ever written -- script generates scripts that generate solutions to both parts

aoc8_ugly.py

# generates a python script which runs the challenge input as code then prints out
# the largest integer in `locals()` and the largest value seen

with open('day8challengeinput','r') as f:
	lines = f.read().split('\n')

def generate_code_from_input():
	headcode = 'largest = 0'
	excode = ''
	symbols = []
	for line in lines:
		p = ' '.join(line.split(' ')[3:]) + ':\n\t' + ' '.join(line.split(' ')[:3])
		symbol = p.split(' ')
		symbol[1] = '_' + symbol[1]
		other_symbol = '_' + p.split('\t')[1].split(' ')[0]
		symbols.append(symbol[1])
		excode += ' '.join(symbol).replace('\t','\t_') + '\n\tif ' + other_symbol + '>largest:\n\t\tlargest = ' + other_symbol + '\n\t\tprint("' + other_symbol + '",largest)\n'
	
	excode = excode.replace(' inc', ' +=').replace(' dec', ' -=')
	
	declarecode = '\n'.join( x + ' = 0' for x in symbols )
	
	compcode = '''locale = dict(locals())
del locale['largest']
print( 'largest value at the end:', max( [locale[j] for j in locale if type(locale[j]) == int] ) )
print( 'largest value seen:', largest )'''
	
	with open('aoc8_generated.py','w') as f:
		f.write(headcode + '\n\n' + declarecode + '\n\n' + excode + '\n\n' + compcode)

generate_code_from_input()