Level 7

figured it out
hint2: (i * 7, 43)

Does anyone agree that this hint should be taken out? I didn't know where to start and then I saw this and I figured it out without any python (or any coding) whatsoever. I would have liked to have had to dwell on this for a while. This hint made this level by far the easiest...

I think that formula is not that hard to work out yourself... You only have to open up paint and count the pixels...

figured it out
hint2: (i * 7, 43)

Does anyone agree that this hint should be taken out? I didn't know where to start and then I saw this and I figured it out without any python (or any coding) whatsoever. I would have liked to have had to dwell on this for a while. This hint made this level by far the easiest...

If you got to this level on your own, that hint should be very obvious on first glance of the image anyway. Although I agree this level is easy, the biggest challenge is grabbing modules for Python - which is something I now learned

I think that formula is not that hard to work out yourself... You only have to open up paint and count the pixels...

You only have to divide the height of the image by two to work out where the grey bar is.

I'm stuck on the second part of this. I've got the message from the grey bar and have a list of 9 values.. but I'm not sure what to do with them. I've tried applying them back to the grey bar, and I get "mma mamad", which I can't do much with).. any hints?

edit: solved it, my code was ignoring duplicate pixels (so with two blocks of the same grey, only the first was being counted)

What to do with the decoded message from the gay bar... that list leads to nothing.

Absolutely amazing quote here... especially out of context.

figured it out
hint2: (i * 7, 43)

Does anyone agree that this hint should be taken out? I didn't know where to start and then I saw this and I figured it out without any python (or any coding) whatsoever. I would have liked to have had to dwell on this for a while. This hint made this level by far the easiest...

If you got to this level on your own, that hint should be very obvious on first glance of the image anyway. Although I agree this level is easy, the biggest challenge is grabbing modules for Python - which is something I now learned

I have no idea what to do and I got the module installed easily.

I am trying to solve this riddle for three days already, and still dont have a any idea what to do with this. I read this topic and got nothing. Can anybody can help me with this? I wrote this using black font to avoid spoilers
smart guy, you made it. the next level is [105, 10, 16, 101, 103, 14, 105, 16, 121]
Just highligth the message to see this. I tried to apply that to the letters in grey bar, to the pixels (without '\xff' bytes), to whole data (with '\xff'), to joinded pixels of grey bar, to binary data of the image file, to the chr() function, to the string.ascii_letters, i tried multiply this numbers by 7, adding 1, 2, -1, and still got nothing. I really do not know what to do with this. There are not any clue. Maybe i did this different way than i supposed, i used to decode the image PIL library, and do not know what effbot library has to do with that...
Please give me some clues...

in effbot.org you get the info about PIL... this is getting harder for unexperienced users of python like me, thanks for hints, they are very useful...

I'm stuck on the second part of this. I've got the message from the grey bar and have a list of 9 values.. but I'm not sure what to do with them. I've tried applying them back to the grey bar, and I get "mma mamad", which I can't do much with).. any hints?

edit: solved it, my code was ignoring duplicate pixels (so with two blocks of the same grey, only the first was being counted)

What are these "duplicated pixels"? I found a list of 9 numbers, and tried to apply it back to the image too, but I got the same message that you got "mma mamad".
You said that you solved it by not discarding duplicated pixels, but I don't know where they are.
Any hint?


edit: Solved it! \o/ Finally I understood the duplicated pixels

One thing that got me confused here was that not all the sections were the same length (even modulo 7), the first one is 5 pixels and the last one is 8.

damnit. could have saved myself 3 days if I'd not tried to do it by hand and used the module.

and also made the duplicate pixel bug. argh.

on to level 8...

finally passed level7

the hint: [i*7, 43] is useful

and after that something used in level01 will be help.

Total headsmacker! I was only reading 1/4 of the message because, well, I didn't think about it when I set the width to read.

Oh, and I chose the sub-optimal module (not the 'effbot' one), which probably would've helped me avoid the math error in the first place.

Hey guys

I'm new in Python and started with Version 3.1.

Is it possible, that the needed module isn't available for 3.x yet?!

I would feel really sad if so... because that challange is such a fun!

thx

[thesamet]

Hey guys

I'm new in Python and started with Version 3.1.

Is it possible, that the needed module isn't available for 3.x yet?!

I would feel really sad if so... because that challange is such a fun!

thx

Welcome! In this puzzle (and several others down the line) you need to access pixel data of the image. I recommend using PIL. Its latest version should be compatible with Python 3.