[Gllug] Python challenge

Ben Fitzgerald ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 9 20:07:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:30:38PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones writes:
> 
> >One of those get-the-URL challenges:
> >
> >http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/index.htm
> 
> Well that certainly helped while away the hours :-) Stuck on #12 at
> the moment. Curiously, the three of us here that are doing it each
> used a different language to solve the various problems -- python,
> perl and shell scripts. Apart from #5, which requires a bit of python
> specific knowledge, they can all be solved with any general purpose
> language (so far at least).
> 
> I'm the one using shell scripts. Currently, the guy using perl is a
> few challenges behind the other two. Yet more proof that perl sucks :-)

Just curious - how did you get the caeser shift (IIRC problem 2 or 3?)
using a shell script?

you don't have to divulge the script, just your methodology! ;-)

ben.

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