Level 8

This one was a lot more reasonable. I know I'm on the right track, but I either get:

  Code:

unknown c********** method

or

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incorrect header check

Depending on whether or not I remove the first two things. I'm doing a direct copy and paste. Tried double quotes, and single... didn't seem to make any difference. Is there a hint I'm missing?

Python doesn't care if you use double or single quotes, as long as you pair them right. I tended to use single. You can actually use it exactly the way it's given to you with a little colon replacement, all things being equal. If you're getting those two messages, you may not be buzzing around the right module.

I was using the wrong lib. I just can't emphasize how poor the documentation is for this language. Eventually one of my friends dug up the documentation on 2, as I was just using the standard (old?) one. Well on to #9.

I was using the wrong lib. I just can't emphasize how poor the documentation is for this language. Eventually one of my friends dug up the documentation on 2, as I was just using the standard (old?) one. Well on to #9.

I don't know why you find the doc poor. This challenge is the easiest so far. The first few bytes of uname and pw are giveaways!

What does everyone mean by the hint in the "password window"? I don't see anything there. Do you mean the letters in the source of the page?

What does everyone mean by the hint in the "password window"? I don't see anything there. Do you mean the letters in the source of the page?

Nope. When you click on the bee, you are prompted for a username and password, aren't you? And there is a hint in the text of this pop-up window...

Im stuck... bz2 maybe?
I have no idea at all!

I found the right library (I'm nealy sure this is ok, becasue the begining of others file with this extension are the same. But old the time I got

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IOError: invalid data stream


Where I can find some advice how to properly write this date?

I think is that I cannot convert \x00 to the correct char. When I c&p date to python is ok, but when I use urllib to take the hole webpage and cut only sth. what I need it doesen't work.

I get exactly the same error. I was up for many hours trying to find that importing it from a file, or even saving it as var doesnt work. Why is that?

I took the html map being called 'notinsect' as a clue that you should should use that data; I hate the puns, it isn't easy to get them.

Hello all People Python,

Just to tell us that this Challenge is the best way to learn a programming language. Regarding the Level 8, it seems that I can't copy correctly the text from the "un" to the funticon because always apear the message "Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check".
I suppose that I'm ussing the correct Lib.

Thanks to all from Santpedor (Barcelona)

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Hello all People Python,

Just to tell us that this Challenge is the best way to learn a programming language. Regarding the Level 8, it seems that I can't copy correctly the text from the "un" to the funticon because always apear the message "Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check".
I suppose that I'm ussing the correct Lib.

Thanks to all from Santpedor (Barcelona)

Send me a PM with the data you've got for un and pw, I'll verify that they are the correct data : )

I too had a problem and kept getting the 'invalid data stream' error. I think it has something to do with python v3 (I'm using v3.2.3). Changing the encoding didn't work, so in the end, I just adding the b in front of the strings by hand and it worked.

aye carumba was that easy. got it in about 5 min from figuring out what to do. but man did I have a horrible approach initially. Were those links always there?

For those that are using python3:
You can no longer simply pass a string to the function; this will result in errors.
You have to convert your string to bytes type by writing variable = b"string"
Now you can use that variable with the function.

For those that need another tip on how to start: Look at the two strings in the source; what to they have in common? google this part.