Hi everybody, I am trying to write a simple Python script to solve the "riddle" at: http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/
The quiz is quite easy to solve, one needs to evaluate the expression between the curly brackets (say that the expression has value <val>) and go to the web page: http://quiz.gambitresearch/job/<val> You have to be fast enough, because with the page there is an associated cookie that expires 1 sec after the first request, therefore you need to be quick to access the /job/<val> page. [I know that this is the correct solution because with a friend we wrote a small script in JavaScript and could access the page with the email address] As an exercise I have decided to try doing the same with Python. First I have tried with the following code: #START SCRIPT import re import urllib2 regex = re.compile(r'<span class=\'x\'>\{(.*)\}<span class=\'x\'>') base_address = "http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/"; base_h = urllib2.urlopen(base_address) base_page = base_h.read() val = str(eval(regex.findall(base_page)[0])) job_address = base_address + "job/" + val job_h = urllib2.urlopen(job_address) job_page = job_h.read() print job_page #END SCRIPT job_page has the following content now: "WRONG! (Have you enabled cookies?)" Trying to solve the issues with the cookies I found the "requests" module that in theory should work. I therefore rewrote the above script to use request: #START SCRIPT: import re import requests regex = re.compile(r'<span class=\'x\'>\{(.*)\}<span class=\'x\'>') base_address = "http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/"; s = requests.Session() base_h = s.get('http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/') base_page = base_h.text val = eval( regex.findall( base_page )[0] ) job_address = base_address + "job/" + str(val) job_h = s.get( job_address ) job_page = job_h.text print job_page #END SCRIPT # print job_page produces "Wrong!". According to the manual using Session() the cookies should be enabled and persistent for all the session. In fact the cookies in base_h.cookies and in job_h.cookies seem to be the same: base_h.cookies == job_h.cookies #returns True So, why does this script fail to access the job page? How can I change it so that I it works as intended and job_page prints the content of the page that displays the email address to use for the job applications? Thanks a lot in advance for the help! Best Wishes, Luca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
