I want to post a question on the python challenge forums but could not register there.
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7
Apparently the forums were hacked after January 2013 and the moderator has closed registrations. So if anyone could tell me how to contact the moderator there, I'd appreciate it.
My questions are probably trivially simple but are actually peripheral to the challenge itself. In exercise 4, we are asked to parse the contents of a web page from a specific url. We then have to use a piece of the web page content to construct a new url. We then have to go to thathat newly constructed url and get the next piece of info. This is a nice internet twist to the concept of linked lists. We have to do this a few hundred times. Obviously, the author of the riddle has not constructed a few hundred web pages. But how did he make that riddle? Also, If we dont check the content of each web page for errors, we get sent to dead ends (because we end up using bad input for the url)
I thought each web page on the net has an ip address that a dns has to dole out. Clearly that is not happening here. It seems the web pages are being created programmatically.
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7
Apparently the forums were hacked after January 2013 and the moderator has closed registrations. So if anyone could tell me how to contact the moderator there, I'd appreciate it.
My questions are probably trivially simple but are actually peripheral to the challenge itself. In exercise 4, we are asked to parse the contents of a web page from a specific url. We then have to use a piece of the web page content to construct a new url. We then have to go to thathat newly constructed url and get the next piece of info. This is a nice internet twist to the concept of linked lists. We have to do this a few hundred times. Obviously, the author of the riddle has not constructed a few hundred web pages. But how did he make that riddle? Also, If we dont check the content of each web page for errors, we get sent to dead ends (because we end up using bad input for the url)
I thought each web page on the net has an ip address that a dns has to dole out. Clearly that is not happening here. It seems the web pages are being created programmatically.
