Archive for September 7, 2007

Python Challenge level 1: “what about making trans?”

Level 1 gets a bit more interesting. Hint 1: k->m, o->q, e->g import string src = string.lowercase[:26] dst = string.lowercase[2:26] + ‘ab’ trans = string.maketrans(src, dst) text = “g fmnc wms bgblr rpylqjyrc gr zw fylb. rfyrq ufyr amknsrcpq ypc dmp. bmgle gr gl zw fylb gq glcddgagclr ylb rfyr’q ufw rfgq rcvr gq qm [...]

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Python Challenge level 0: “warming up!”

I recently discovered the Python Challenge web site. An interesting way to pick up a programming language. It claims to be the first programming riddle on the net, and I have been told that it’s shaped after another onlin games that predates this one by more than a year, notprOn. It turns out the Python [...]

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