Python Challenge ahead [NEW] - for riddle lovers

2005-05-08 Thread pythonchallenge
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-06 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:38:53 +0300, rumours say that pythonchallenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: 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. You are invited to take part in it at:

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread Martijn Pieters
[SNIP me whining then cheering about level 13] Dan Bishop wrote: You mean there's a hint in that XML-RPC fault? No, there is a hint in level 12. Remember how you could manipulate the URL of the image of level 12 to get to the data file for that level. Now continue that manipulation and don't

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread Martijn Pieters
Michael Spencer wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: You mean there's a hint in that XML-RPC fault? No - the hint is associated with another error message Assuming a web browser (firefox in my case) is being used. ;) I got no error message when I retrieved that URL with urllib and examined the result..

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread James Carroll
Och! Thanks for the hint! I actually guessed the answer of who to phone earlier in the day, but didn't have the capitolization correct... Damn! Great riddles! -Jim On 5/5/05, Martijn Pieters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP me whining then cheering about level 13] Dan Bishop wrote: You

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread Dan Bishop
James Carroll wrote: Och! Thanks for the hint! I actually guessed the answer of who to phone earlier in the day, but didn't have the capitolization correct... Damn! Great riddles! I found the answer with a brute-force search (using /usr/share/dict/words). --

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread willitfw
any help on level 4 would be appreciated. i've looked at the hints, but isn't obvious -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread Martijn Pieters
willitfw wrote: any help on level 4 would be appreciated. i've looked at the hints, but isn't obvious It isn't meant to be too obvious.. If you're expecting obvious solutions, you won't like the rest of the challenge. ;) What have you tried? Have you studied the source of the page, tried the

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-05 Thread willitfw
yes, I have done that. i'll keep working on it. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Pieters
Dan Christensen wrote: Any hints for level 13? I know how to make a call, but don't know who to call. I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to rmember the solution for level 12.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Roel Schroeven
Martijn Pieters wrote: Dan Christensen wrote: Any hints for level 13? I know how to make a call, but don't know who to call. I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to rmember the solution for level 12. You don't

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Spencer
Martijn Pieters wrote: Dan Christensen wrote: Any hints for level 13? I know how to make a call, but don't know who to call. I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to rmember the solution for level 12.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Pieters
Michael Spencer wrote: Same here. BTW I was unable to open one of the objects created in level 12. It didn't stop me guessing the answer based on the others, but now I wonder whether I might need the missing piece for level 13. Anyone else encounter this? Nope, that piece is just a truncated

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Roel Schroeven
Michael Spencer wrote: Martijn Pieters wrote: Dan Christensen wrote: Any hints for level 13? I know how to make a call, but don't know who to call. I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to rmember the solution for

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Pieters
Roel Schroeven wrote: You don't really need the remember the solution; it's more the process that led you to find the solution. Yup, I do remember the process, and it hasn't been any help so far.. no adjustable URLs leading to interesting files, no 'dealable' images, no nada. Martijn Pieters

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters wrote: I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to remember the solution for level 12. A, that was devious! I found it finally, how evil that was! I really fell for it too, until I paid more attention to that

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Roel Schroeven
Martijn Pieters wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: You don't really need the remember the solution; it's more the process that led you to find the solution. Yup, I do remember the process, and it hasn't been any help so far.. no adjustable URLs leading to interesting files, no 'dealable'

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Pieters
Roel Schroeven wrote: Unless Martijn Pieters here and mjpieters in the Python Challenge forum are two differen persons, you've found it in the meantime, haven't you? Yup, I found it. How evil and devious. I found the hint without Googling, BTW, but can see how Google would have led you to the

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Spencer
Martijn Pieters wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: Unless Martijn Pieters here and mjpieters in the Python Challenge forum are two differen persons, you've found it in the meantime, haven't you? Yup, I found it. How evil and devious. I found the hint without Googling, BTW, but can see how

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-04 Thread Dan Bishop
Martijn Pieters wrote: Martijn Pieters wrote: I haven't figured this one out yet either. Rather frustrating really. All the hints I've been given so far is to remember the solution for level 12. A, that was devious! I found it finally, how evil that was! I really fell for it too,

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Bishop
John Hazen wrote: * Dan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-02 21:09]: Dan Christensen wrote: Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Christensen wrote: Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no level 12 yet though. Now there's a 12 and a 13 (at

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Dan Bishop wrote: Well, I'd deal them into 2 piles, and... Damn! That was an obscure hint! Now, how do I open *.gfx files? You don't directly. Hint: gfx stands for? ** SPOILER Graphic*s*. --

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
John Hazen wrote: Hmmm. The title of the html page is dealing evil. If you were playing war instead of solitaire, how would you change how you deal the cards? Hm, I'm not familiar with playing war. You couldn't elaborate a bit on that, could you? -- If I have been able to see further, it

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
Roel Schroeven wrote: John Hazen wrote: Hmmm. The title of the html page is dealing evil. If you were playing war instead of solitaire, how would you change how you deal the cards? Hm, I'm not familiar with playing war. You couldn't elaborate a bit on that, could you? Never mind, I

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Chris McAloney
Hi all, Okay, so I've been working on level seven for a LONG time now. I've decoded the first message to get the hint for the next level. Using the same tactics, then I decode the hint as well, but there are non-printable characters. I've tried stripping out those characters, quoting them to

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
Chris McAloney wrote: Hi all, Okay, so I've been working on level seven for a LONG time now. I've decoded the first message to get the hint for the next level. Using the same tactics, then I decode the hint as well, but there are non-printable characters. I've tried stripping out those

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tiziano Bettio
PLEASE HELP... What the hell do i have to pronounce in puzzle 5 Some useful hints would be awesome thx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tim Peters
[Chris McAloney] Okay, so I've been working on level seven for a LONG time now. Hmm. I've been staring at that one 18 hours a day since last Friday, and still don't have the foggiest idea. I've counted boxes, counted pixels, broken it apart and rearranged it like a jigsaw puzzle, ran strings

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tim Peters
[Tiziano Bettio] PLEASE HELP... What the hell do i have to pronounce in puzzle 5 Some useful hints would be awesome That's a funny one: I didn't understand the pronounce it hint until long after I solved that one. Then again, Guido I implemented PEP 307, so I knew what to do the

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Tim Peters wrote: [Tiziano Bettio] PLEASE HELP... What the hell do i have to pronounce in puzzle 5 Some useful hints would be awesome That's a funny one: I didn't understand the pronounce it hint until long after I solved that one. Then again, Guido I implemented PEP 307, so I

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Chris McAloney
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Leif K-Brooks wrote: Chris McAloney wrote: Okay, so I've been working on level seven for a LONG time now. I've decoded the first message to get the hint for the next level. Using the same tactics, then I decode the hint as well, but there are non-printable

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Chris McAloney
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Tim Peters wrote: Hmm. I've been staring at that one 18 hours a day since last Friday, I'm very relieved to hear that I'm not the only one, then. I've decoded the first message to get the hint for the next level. It's not nice to humilate your elders in public, Chris.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Dan Christensen wrote: Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no level 12 yet though. Now there's a 12 and a 13 (at least!). Anyone solved 12? Hints? thanks, Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 :). Thanks, Maciek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread John Hazen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
John Hazen wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
I am stuck on level 3. I've tried every re that I can think of. Some body give me a clue. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Maciek Starzyk
On 5/2/05, John Hazen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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? Now I

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Roel Schroeven
John Hazen wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Roel Schroeven
Dan Bishop wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: 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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
darren kirby wrote: quoth the Ganesan Rajagopal: I am stuck on level 3. I've tried every re that I can think of. Some body give me a clue. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal t = /text of page source.../ re.findall('[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z]{1}[A-Z]{3}[a-z]', t) You should get ten results.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread John Hazen
* Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-02 06:19]: John Hazen wrote: Have you found the zip file yet? (I did, and I still can't figure it out) It's best when you use the zipfile module. Cool. I had just unzipped the zipfile, and was looking at the files directly. The

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Reinhold Birkenfeld: Somehow writing '[a-z]{1}' is strange... Reinhold t = /text of page source.../ re.findall('[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z]', t) Sorry dude! When it comes to logic puzzles I am easily frustrated, and that leads to unclear thinking... -d -- darren kirby ::

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
darren == darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: quoth the Ganesan Rajagopal: I am stuck on level 3. I've tried every re that I can think of. Some body give me a clue. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal t = /text of page source.../ re.findall('[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z]{1}[A-Z]{3}[a-z]', t) You

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread John Hazen
* Dan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-02 21:09]: Dan Christensen wrote: Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Christensen wrote: Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no level 12 yet though. Now there's a 12 and a 13 (at least!). Anyone solved

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Bishop
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
Dan Bishop wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: 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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
Roel Schroeven wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: Dan Bishop wrote: 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. There's a new image on the website now (still the same name though); I solved the riddle now :-) There's no

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Christensen
Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no level 12 yet though. Now there's a 12 and a 13 (at least!). Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Mark T
pythonchallenge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Tim Peters
[Mike Rovner] 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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Mike Rovner
Tim Peters wrote: [Mike Rovner] 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

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Leif K-Brooks
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com Very neat, I love things like this. Level 5 is maddening. Keep

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Dan Bishop
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Roel Schroeven
Mike Rovner wrote: David Murmann wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: 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. :-) Interestingly step 3 is actually wrong... there is an

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-30 Thread Dan Bishop
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was pretty fun. Good

Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread pythonchallenge
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread 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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday. Too bad it

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread Erik Max Francis
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was pretty fun. Good for a Friday.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread David Murmann
Shane Hathaway wrote: 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. :-) Interestingly step 3 is actually wrong... there is an additional solution, which looks like cqqmsxk.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Spencer
David Murmann wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: 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. :-) Interestingly step 3 is actually wrong... there is an additional solution, which

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread darren kirby
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was pretty fun.

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread Shane Hathaway
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread bgs
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. You are invited to take part in it at: http://www.pythonchallenge.com That was fun. The very first step in 6 was the most

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread Mike Rovner
David Murmann wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: 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. :-) Interestingly step 3 is actually wrong... there is an additional solution, which