just one more question about the python challenge

Georg Brandl g.brandl-nospam at gmx.net
Wed Apr 12 12:47:00 EDT 2006


John Salerno wrote:
> Just wrote:
>> In article <Oq9%f.1962$No6.42661 at news.tufts.edu>,
>>  John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you found the file? You'll have to distribute that file bytewise
>>>> in 5 "piles".
>>> No, I haven't figured out anything for this puzzle. It seems I might 
>>> have to change the filename of the image to something else, but I don't 
>>> know what. But even after I find the image, I won't know what to do from 
>>> there. I don't know what it means to distribute a file bytewise, but if 
>>> I knew exactly which modules/functions to use, I'd be more than happy 
>>> reading up on them myself. I just hate not knowing where to go to begin 
>>> with (even though I know I probably won't know enough about images to 
>>> use the right module properly either, but I can try).
>> 
>> Have a look at the url of the image, then try the next.
>> 
>> Just
> 
> Interesting. So I have 3 images now (the 4th one didn't work, it just 
> showed the URL as HTML source). Aren't there supposed to be 5 images? I 
> also tried changing the file type to .gfx, but Photoshop couldn't open 
> it so I don't know if that's valid.

At the second, don't rename the file, rename the URL.

Georg



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