Level 5

Quite frankly I have no idea...
And seing how I do not know anything about python(did every other level by other means) I'd have to say its thru for me.
Unless a generous person is willing to explain a bit more by PM perhaps

Like cml21 said, I think it was intended to be Python specific. Many of the later puzzles also are meant to showcase parts of Python's standard library.

So I'm getting brackets, curly braces and some numbers, am I on the right track? do I need to do some more stuff?...or am I not seeing it in a particular way?

I have a big hint for you.
http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/p (If this doesn't help, I don't see what will)

Didn't want to read through this whole thing so I'm not sure if it's been said, but unless you're running *nix or windows powershell the output of the 'solution' will look like garbage. Took me awhile to figure that out, but in DrPython's interpreter, Idle, and cmd.exe it all looks like junk.

This was clearly not tested on Windows.

do you have a program called banner?

if not get it.
If so type

banner hello

to see what happens, then look at the data...

I could not find any such program. There were a few .py's that I tried, but all had syntax errors. In the end I just laid it all out by hand in notepad. I seriously don't know program or script you guys used to make the b****r.

I solve this last night just finished now.
Very creative problem

Hint : Have to manage the spaces

I did whatever I had to do with banner.p and the output looks like an output of the banner function from *nix, but i can't figure out what to do with it, the class type of the output si 'list', is this corect? any hint?

...
OK, so am I the only one not seeing where the hell the data I'm trying to FIND for this is?!
Edit:
Ah... so you -can- save banner.p...
now what the heck do I do???
Edit 2:
... I found it, I used load() like you're supposed to...
and... you're honestly supposed to... oh my... really?

Does the ******** command need to be run with a specific version of Python? I keep getting :

  Code:

ValueError: read() from the underlying stream did notreturn bytes

Is anyone interested in looking at my code and/or the full error message and lending me a clue-by-four?

Thanks

Does the ******** command need to be run with a specific version of Python? I keep getting :

  Code:

ValueError: read() from the underlying stream did notreturn bytes

Is anyone interested in looking at my code and/or the full error message and lending me a clue-by-four?

Thanks

Nevermind. I figured it out. If you get an error message, try "rb" insead of "r".

print "stuff", causes it to add a whitespace after the string... lame
use sys.stdout.write

If you process the dat, and end up with your b*****, but cannot read the result clearly, here is my hint: str() * x adds one character too many.

I spent a solid day working with the image, before I realized what the actual target in the source was. If you are this far down in the hints for this level, you might be doing the same thing. Once you load the correct target, you can use a few lines of python to put all the pieces together. You wont need to decipher or interpret anything. Once you put the pieces together, it will be obvious! Very nice!

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