[L2]: The symbols into words

[Nathster Slvester]

Hey everyone,

I was able to get the grab the source code for the webpage, but I have really no clue what to do with the symbols. My current code is:

from urllib.request import urlopen

import string

request = urlopen("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/ocr.html")

a = request.read()

print(a.splitlines())

Does anyone know of a next step?

[Nathster Slvester]

Edit:

from urllib.request import urlopen

import re

request = urlopen("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/ocr.html")

a = request.read()

b = a.decode("utf-8")

d = re.findall('[a-z]', b)

e = ''.join(d)

print (e)

input()

I changed my code to this and it says I need to pick up rare characters. Any idea on how to do this?

[jseb]

Just take a look at the source code of the web page.

[Vikram Panigrahi]

you need to apply regex on the mess, i.e. line 38-1257 and not the entire page source.

data = request.readlines()
encrypted_message = map(lambda bytes: bytes.decode("utf-8"), data[37:1257])
rare_chars = re.findall('[a-zA-Z]+', ''.join(encrypted_message))
message = ''.join(rare_chars)

[Michael Russell]

Yeah don't read the whole HTML, just that one comment. Then it says to find the rare characters so do that. Count how many times each character occurs and then see which ones are rare.