First of all I checked the lib to see if there’s an OCR module, looks no, at least not in the standard distribution 
OK, it says to find the rare chars, so here is my first try:
ss = {}
for c in f.read():
if ss.has_key(c):
ss[c] += 1
else:
ss[c]=1
And here is the output:
Out[6]:
{’\n’: 1220,
‘!’: 6079,
‘#’: 6115,
‘$’: 6046,
‘%’: 6104,
‘&’: 6043,
‘(’: 6154,
‘)’: 6186,
‘*’: 6034,
‘+’: 6066,
‘@’: 6157,
‘[’: 6108,
‘]’: 6152,
‘^’: 6030,
‘_’: 6112,
‘a’: 1,
‘e’: 1,
‘i’: 1,
‘l’: 1,
‘q’: 1,
‘t’: 1,
‘u’: 1,
‘y’: 1,
‘{’: 6046,
‘}’: 6105}
I tried http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/aeilqtuy.html and got a 404. I think I need to preserve the order. Anyway they are all lower case chars so
f = open(”mess.txt”, “r”)
out = [c for c in f.read() if c in string.ascii_lowercase]
And here is what I got:
Out[15]: [’e', ‘q’, ‘u’, ‘a’, ‘l’, ‘i’, ‘t’, ‘y’]
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/equality.html, got it!
The hit is: One small letter, surrounded by EXACTLY three big bodyguards on each of its sides.
The title is “re”. So this is re related. But I don’t know what the hit means and decided to take a look at the page source. Ah, there’s a mess in there, again!
So tomorrow, I’ll use re to search the mess and find some patien, maybe a lower case surounded by three upper case or something similiar.
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