Python iPod challenge

[josetokyo at gmail.com]

Hi guys,..

thanks for your thoughtful comments...
   as Alan says, its just a linguistic experiment...
   it seems the problem you guys found appears...
   when combining Windows OS and MSIE...
   (apologies...  m_._m )

Dont know how to fix it .(I am a begginer...)
    if some soul wanna help out...  the code is here...
    http://test-iq.web.cern.ch/test-iq/piton_is_easy.tar

Anyway it works fine with firefox :)

    Thanks!


On Nov 11, 12:55 pm, Alan Franzoni
<alan.franzoni_inva... at geemail.invalid> wrote:
> Il Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:11:27 -0600, Tim Chase ha scritto:
>
> > I had similar problems.  Additionally, that's pretty unpythonic
> > code, as the "correct" answer would be something like
>
> That's true, but you should remember it's a linguistic experiment, not a
> Python programming contest. The task is not to "do that thing in the best
> possible way", but to "fill in the gaps". You should just try to understand
> what the "original programmer" did and to complete the program in such way.
>
> Real problems here lie in the webapp implementation: it should check for
> javascript *before* beginning the test (I have noscript enabled, and had to
> give permission to the site, hence it took me far more time to complete the
> test since I was just clicking but obtaining nothing) and should state more
> clearly that it just needs the number of letters as the output (this should
> be related to scripteaze problem) without any other character. Error
> messages are pretty counter-intuitive.
>
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