what are you using python language for?

[hacker1017]

im just asking out of curiosity.

[Grant Edwards]

At the moment, I'm using it for

1) Enginerring/scientific data analysis and visualization.

2) Serial communication test programs.

3) Small utilities for embedded software development
(processing map and hex files).

4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic
strips I like every day and putting them on a local web
page so I can read them all in one place, deleting all of
the virus-laden e-mails that Postini catches, etc.

--
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[Kay Schluehr]

hacker1017 wrote:

im just asking out of curiosity.

To get an impression you might have a look at the Europython 2006
schedule:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=44

Personally I'm playing with the language itself at the moment and
extend it through it:

http://www.fiber-space.de/EasyExtend/doc/EE.html

Regards,
Kay

[Tim Chase]

> 4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic

strips I like every day and putting them on a local web
page so I can read them all in one place

I wonder how many other folks have done this too. It was my
first pet Python project, converting a Java rendition of the same
app into Python. Shorter, clearer, faster, better...

Mine uses my older Java config file (which, while tinkering with
Java's XML libraries, ended up being XML), supports
Referrer/Referer spoofing, searches pages for regexps so that I
can find image URLs that have been munged with random numbers
(like dilbert.com does). It then builds a local HTML file that
points at all the locally-saved images.

I wonder what other sorts of features folks have added in their
comic-snatchers...

I tried a multi-threaded version in Java, but had problems with
it saturating my dialup connection, and returning some sort of
errors (perhaps in violation of HTTP's suggestion that one only
have, IIRC, 2 connections to a server at a given time). I might
try it again with Python. I saw some function-call fly by
recently that looked like it took a function reference and an
array of parameter-arrays, and spawned a thread for each
function. I foolishly deleted that message, but it shouldn't be
too hard to scare up again. I think it involved importing
something from the future. A nice little status-GUI would be a
nice addition, but I'm too lazy to go that far, leaving it with
just a TUI. Might be a good way to learn Python GUI programming...

-tkc

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-06-06, Tim Chase <py*********@ti m.thechases.com > wrote:

4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic
strips I like every day and putting them on a local web
page so I can read them all in one place
I wonder how many other folks have done this too. It was my
first pet Python project, converting a Java rendition of the same
app into Python. Shorter, clearer, faster, better...

Mine uses my older Java config file (which, while tinkering with
Java's XML libraries, ended up being XML),

Mine just has lists of strip/source pairs at the top of the
source code.
supports Referrer/Referer spoofing,
Yup. Although I wouldn't actually call mine "spoofing". Since
I do grab the end URL from the referrer every time, it really
is referring me to the server where the image is.
searches pages for regexps so that I can find image URLs that
have been munged with random numbers (like dilbert.com does).
It then builds a local HTML file that points at all the
locally-saved images. I wonder what other sorts of features folks have added in their
comic-snatchers...
Mine scales the images up by 50% -- the native image size
provided by the distributors is just too small on my 19"
1280x1024 screen.
I tried a multi-threaded version in Java, but had problems
with it saturating my dialup connection, and returning some
sort of errors (perhaps in violation of HTTP's suggestion that
one only have, IIRC, 2 connections to a server at a given
time). I might try it again with Python. I saw some
function-call fly by recently that looked like it took a
function reference and an array of parameter-arrays, and
spawned a thread for each function. I foolishly deleted that
message, but it shouldn't be too hard to scare up again. I
think it involved importing something from the future. A nice
little status-GUI would be a nice addition, but I'm too lazy
to go that far, leaving it with just a TUI. Might be a good
way to learn Python GUI programming...

Mine runs as a cron job every morning before I get to the
office (which is where I read them -- don't tell anybody).

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[bruno at modulix]

hacker1017 wrote:

im just asking out of curiosity.

Err... Programming ?-)

Sorry...

Actually, mostly web applications (CMS, groupware, small/medium business
apps etc), and admin utilities.

--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'o****@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"

[mensanator]

hacker1017 wrote:

im just asking out of curiosity.

Math research on the Collatz Conjecture.

[faulkner]

i'm writing a text editor [yes, it has quite a few interesting unique
features].
<URL:http://fauxlkner.sf.ne t>
this summer, i hope to make it collaborative like gobby.

i also have a full-time job this summer at my college writing a small
database system to manage student records.

hacker1017 wrote:

im just asking out of curiosity.

[mauriceling]

I am using Python to assemble a biomedical literature analysis pipeline
as part of my PhD thesis. (http://ib-dwb.sf.net/Muscorian.html)

[gregarican]

Currently I am using Python for a CRM client application that runs on
Win32, ARM Linux, and WinCE platforms. It pushes and pulls contact data
using XMLRPC calls so that it doesn't lock the client into having to
use CDO for communicating with the Exchange Server and ADO for
communicating with the SQL Server.

hacker1017 wrote:

im just asking out of curiosity.