Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Tue May 3 14:49:14 EDT 2005


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 characters, quoting them to
> include in the URL and various anagrams of the printable characters, but
> nothing works.  Does anybody have any suggestions?

I just took a guess for the first of those non-printable characters, and 
proceeded from there. I thought it was going to be too simplistic, but 
it worked. And fortunately my first guess was the right one.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven



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