{"id":304,"date":"2013-09-30T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-python-challenge-7\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T08:49:42","slug":"the-python-challenge-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-python-challenge-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Python Challenge – 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was pretty easy.\u00a0 The hardest thing was realising I needed the PIL image library and then installing it.\u00a0 Thank you to Samson for the link to the PIL download page<\/a>.\u00a0 Once up and running it was pretty easy to pick the grey squares and decode their RGB value to a letter…<\/p>\n

The code was the same for both this time since I opted to open the page directly and not use print.<\/p>\n

Python 2.7 and 3.2.3 code <\/p>\n

#smarty?
from PIL import Image
import re, webbrowser
im = Image.open(\"oxygen.png\")
#get height and width
xy = im.size
height = xy[1]
width = xy[0]
#grey lines appear to go down the middle, assume that the value corresponds to a letter and boxes are 7 square
count = 3
message = \"\"
while count < width-21:
    pix = im.getpixel((count,45))
    count += 7
    message += chr(pix[0])
regex = r'((?<=\\[).*(?=\\]))'
numbers = re.findall(regex, message)
letters = numbers[0].split(\", \")
final = \"\"
for letter in letters:
    final += chr(int(letter))
webbrowser.open(\"http:\/\/www.pythonchallenge.com\/pc\/def\/\" + final + \".html\",new=2)













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