Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

[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" over the .png, ..., all in vain.

> 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.

> 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?

Count boxes, count pixels, break it apart and rearrange it like a
jigsaw puzzle, run "strings" over it ... I have a lot of useless
suggestions, anyway.