Advent of Code 2022 day 5

Is there a more efficient way to do this? Note that from is a reserved word in Python, so begin was used instead. 

with open("5.txt") as f:
    lines = f.read()

head, instructions = lines.split("\n\n")

def get_state(head):
    state = {
        x:"" for x in range(1, (len(head.split("\n")[0])+5)//4 + 1)
    }
    for line in reversed(head.split("\n")[:-1]):
        for col, i in enumerate(range(1, len(line), 4), 1):
            if line[i].isalpha():
                state[col] += line[i]
    return state

def carry_out_instruction(state, instruction):
    _, amount, _, begin, _, to = instruction.split(" ")
    amount = int(amount)
    begin = int(begin)
    to = int(to)
    print(state)
    for _ in range(amount):
        state[to] += state[begin][-1]
        state[begin] = state[begin][:-1]
    print(instruction)
    return state

def carry_out_instructions(state, instructions):
    for line in instructions.split("\n")[:-1]:
        state = carry_out_instruction(state, line)
    return state

def top(state):
    return "".join([packages[-1] for _, packages in state.items() if packages])

state = get_state(head)
state = carry_out_instructions(state, instructions)
print(top(state))

# part 2
def carry_out_instruction_2(state, instruction):
    _, amount, _, begin, _, to = instruction.split(" ")
    amount = int(amount)
    begin = int(begin)
    to = int(to)
    print(state)
    state[to] += state[begin][-amount:]
    state[begin] = state[begin][:-amount]
    print(instruction)
    return state

def carry_out_instructions_2(state, instructions):
    for line in instructions.split("\n")[:-1]:
        state = carry_out_instruction_2(state, line)
    return state

state2 = get_state(head)
state2 = carry_out_instructions_2(state2, instructions)
print(top(state2))

Christian Christiansen.