Level 3

erm, i've got a question...

I followed all the hints, found the groups of "lowercase and exactly three large bodyguards" and pulled out the single lower-case letter from each of the matched groups... i have "2" (read in binary notation) letters that i'm trying, is that at all close to correct?

I'm assuming i'm wrong, becuase when i try the URL
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/(myanswer).html

I get a 404.

-- figured it out... i was looking at the wrong group of chars... i am a mor-AN...

Hi,

I know what to put in the URl for level 3, and I got a new message, not the devil 404.

But I don't know what do I have to do...

Thanks

I must be missing something that everyone else seems to get. Is this something more involved than just looking for a lower-case letter that has exactly three uppercase letters on either side of it? That's what got me 477 matches, which seems like a common mistake. Is there something vital here that I'm missing? I feel stupid


--
Max Thom Stahl

Okay nevermind I totally got it. *still feels dumb*

- max


--
Max Thom Stahl

Well, I got the idea of it, about the big letters, about the "re" thing (hint: which can also be seen by the candles) etc.
But still, when i search for the appropriate expression(s), it finds NONE.
I'm not sure if I got it right.. can somebody gimme a hand?
TIA

P.S: I'm using Pascal, not Python, heh.. but it has no relevance, as far as I see it.

OK

I know whats its like to be close on this stupid one. Dont give up!

some hints:

. there more to re than the search method

. file extensions count.

This hint will be more confounding than helpful.

HINT it can be solved in two lines of code.

I simply wrote a simple state machine to solve the riddle:

  Code:

text = <the text>
import sys
import string
d = 0
answer = ""
for c in text:
    if d == 0 or d == 4 or d == 8 and d != 9:
        if c in string.ascii_lowercase:
            answer = answer + c
            d += 1
        else:
            d = 0
            answer = ""
    elif d != 0 and d != 4 and d != 8 and d != 9:
        if c in string.ascii_uppercase:
            answer = answer + c
            d += 1
        else:
            d = 0
            answer = ""
    elif d == 9:
        print answer
        d = 0


and it found six answers, this code even checks that there are ONLY three upper case around the lowercase letter:

eOEKiVEYj
aZADnMCZq
bZUTkLYNg
dXJVlGZVm
gZAGiLQZx
qKWGtIDCj

I tried every anagram of inklit.html and nothing works!

For some reason your search doesn't find ALL XXXxXXX patterns... but there is another module that could solve this in a single line of code...

Oh and by the way, please don't post spoilers, thanks!

why I had found 516 matches ?

I'm searching for XXXxXXX , is that right ?

do the big X must be the same or not ?

do the big X must be the same or not ?

No, but you forgot a word

do the big X must be the same or not ?

No, but you forgot a word

I'm sorry , what do you mean ?

If you search for XXXxXXX you missed something, you must be more precise in your search

you mean that there are 3 more X like a cross ?

No, simply read the hint on the page again