pythonchallenge wrote: > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
Shane Hathaway wrote: > pythonchallenge wrote: >> For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part >> in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
> That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday. Too bad it comes to an abrupt > "temporary end".
Ironically, I just used Unix tools (tr, grep, sed) for each of the puzzles except the first one, and that first one was only because I tend to use Python as a convenient calculator anyway :-).
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> pythonchallenge wrote: > > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
> That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday. Too bad it comes to an abrupt > "temporary end".
> Shane
> P.S. I hope I didn't hammer your server on step 3. I was missing the > mark. :-)
You're not the only one. This is where I am currently stuck. It's starting to hurt my head.
There are 478 results in the form *BBBsBBB* but the thing said 'exactly' right, well there are 10 results in the form *sBBBsBBBs* None of them seem to work...
I quit ;) -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
pythonchallenge wrote: > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
>>That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday. Too bad it comes to an abrupt >>"temporary end".
>>Shane
>>P.S. I hope I didn't hammer your server on step 3. I was missing the >>mark. :-)
> You're not the only one. This is where I am currently stuck. It's starting to > hurt my head.
> There are 478 results in the form *BBBsBBB* but the thing said 'exactly' > right, well there are 10 results in the form *sBBBsBBBs* > None of them seem to work...
I did the same thing. Now just combine those ten results.
> 3 IS wrong because if you use any not BIG letter after bodyguard on both > sides, you get extra 'eCQQmSXK\n' which slow me down for 5 minutes.
Get rid of the newlines first.
On level 7, I'm not sure whether there's something more to do, or whether I'm looking at a bug in how IE displays .png files. Using Windows is good practice in solving maddening riddles every day <wink>.
>>3 IS wrong because if you use any not BIG letter after bodyguard on both >>sides, you get extra 'eCQQmSXK\n' which slow me down for 5 minutes.
> Get rid of the newlines first.
> On level 7, I'm not sure whether there's something more to do, or > whether I'm looking at a bug in how IE displays .png files. Using > Windows is good practice in solving maddening riddles every day > <wink>.
There is! That black and white line contains the message.
pythonchallenge wrote: > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Shane Hathaway: > > pythonchallenge wrote: > > > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > > > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
> > That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday. Too bad it comes to an abrupt > > "temporary end".
> > Shane
> > P.S. I hope I didn't hammer your server on step 3. I was missing the > > mark. :-)
> You're not the only one. This is where I am currently stuck. It's starting to > hurt my head.
> There are 478 results in the form *BBBsBBB* but the thing said 'exactly' > right, well there are 10 results in the form *sBBBsBBBs* > None of them seem to work...
The same thing happened to me, but then I figured it out.
Shane Hathaway wrote: > pythonchallenge wrote: > > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take part > > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the net.
Dan Bishop wrote: > Shane Hathaway wrote: > > pythonchallenge wrote: > > > For the riddles' lovers among you, you are most invited to take > part > > > in the Python Challenge, the first python programming riddle on the > net.
> Correction: Now I'm stuck on Level 11. I think I'm supposed to do > something with the pixels in the image, but what?
Me too. I've tried making different images out of the even and the odd pixels, but nothing interesting happened. I tried to combine both images in various ways (using the Gimp), but that also seemed to be a dead end.
I don't think we need to concernt ourselves with the individual pixel values; otherwise the image would not be a jpeg, it would be a non-lossy format instead.
The forum's tips only go up to 9, so that doesn't help either.
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> > Correction: Now I'm stuck on Level 11. I think I'm supposed to do > > something with the pixels in the image, but what?
> Me too. I've tried making different images out of the even and the odd > pixels, but nothing interesting happened. I tried to combine both images > in various ways (using the Gimp), but that also seemed to be a dead
end.
You only got 2 images?
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Split them again to get 4 images with (even, even), (even, odd), (odd, even), and (odd, odd) coordinates. Two of the resulting images will be useful.
> Any hints on level 6 ? > There is "zip" in the page source, "ZIp" in the > image data, but have no clue what to do with them > - tried many things :).
Have you found the zip file yet?
(I did, and I still can't figure it out. I'm wondering if there are comments embedded in the jpg that none of my viewers will show me. Hmm, maybe there's a python module that does that... I'll play with it more after I sleep on it.)
John Hazen wrote: > * mstar...@gmail.com <mstar...@gmail.com> [2005-05-02 05:10]: >> Any hints on level 6 ? >> There is "zip" in the page source, "ZIp" in the >> image data, but have no clue what to do with them >> - tried many things :).
> Have you found the zip file yet?
> (I did, and I still can't figure it out. I'm wondering if there are > comments embedded in the jpg that none of my viewers will show me. > Hmm, maybe there's a python module that does that... I'll play with it > more after I sleep on it.)
It's best when you use the zipfile module.
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Look carefully at the ZipInfo class for every file in the archive.
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