import urllib import StringIO import Image url = 'http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/oxygen.png' a = urllib.urlopen(url) image = a.read() j = StringIO.StringIO(image) box = (0,42,608,52) cord = (0,45,608,45) o = Image.open(j) k = o.convert('L') t=[] y = 45 for x in xrange(608/7+1): xy = (x*7,y) b = k.getpixel(xy) t.append(b) def tras(codes): code = '' for i in codes: code+=chr(i) print code tras(t) code2 = [105, 110, 116, 101, 103, 114, 105, 116, 121] tras(code2)