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I had a lot of frustrating problems with this one with files appearing correct and failing to display, and such. A piece of advice: be sure to handle things on a file-level, not on a line-level. They don't produce the same results.

OK - I'm still stuck after a week.

I still can't find a name for the differences in order to find the zip file. I've tried many variations and keep getting 404 looking for the file.

Or should I be looking at the difference between the images after I split it? (which, btw, I still can't name the difference properly).

Or - is it obvious that I'm rooting in the wrong directory?

Any more clues that might help?

EDIT - Doh! talk about not being bright {g}.

This is annoying. I have solved this up to the 3 images. I have 3 hex streams that I have identified are a type of image format. I need to know how to convert hex into images. PIL only works with pixel location and colour.
Anybody?
I'm sooo close now.
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If you have the 3 images, simply look at them, if you've gone the right way

No I have 3 arrays with hex data in them that when I google the hex data I find that the data is the header of png files. I want to be able to turn these arrays of hex data into png files. I know I am so close but I need help in closing the deal. I used binhex to try and turn the data into binarys that can be opened but that didn't work.

No I have 3 arrays with hex data in them that when I google the hex data I find that the data is the header of png files. I want to be able to turn these arrays of hex data into png files. I know I am so close but I need help in closing the deal. I used binhex to try and turn the data into binarys that can be opened but that didn't work.

If you think your data has a certain signature, have you tried just writing it to a file of the appropriate type (extension that is) and opening it up?

never mind. I got it.

amadain wrote:
No I have 3 arrays with hex data in them that when I google the hex data I find that the data is the header of png files. I want to be able to turn these arrays of hex data into png files. I know I am so close but I need help in closing the deal. I used binhex to try and turn the data into binarys that can be opened but that didn't work.


If you think your data has a certain signature, have you tried just writing it to a file of the appropriate type (extension that is) and opening it up?

No I actually had to binascii.unhexlify the data to get it to view

yes, sorry, it has to be in a string of values form for that step. I missed it when I first looked back at my solution because it was embedded in my write statements. You shouldn't need a module to do that, int() and chr() convert it just fine.