Twenty things to do with a python script
With a deferential bow to Seymour Papert & Cynthia Solomon's 1971 20 Things to do with a computer, here a selected listing of Python recipes that represent a range posible explorations that need not involve much more than 20 - 30 lines of code.
Make a turtle
import turtle
Create an Inkscape plugin to draw turtle graphics
See Seymour
Generating tactical text hybrids
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Using nltk
Source: Femke Snelting, http://snelting.domainepublic.net/files/EmmaWoodhouse.odt
Programmatically Manipulating Typefaces
Source: Eric Schrijver, http://i.liketightpants.net/and/programmatically-manipulating-typefaces
Spidering texts and extracting strategic search patterns
Source: Nicolas Malevé, http://vj13.constantvzw.org/live/deskcam/
Running a mini-webserver
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Permute the spellings of search terms
Source: Linda Hilfling, the experiments were developed later into the Misspelling generator browser plugin & project
Create a Traceroute Map
Source: User:Roelroscama/trim1/protoyping
Scrape Albert Heijn Loyalty Cards
Source: Birgit Bachler, http://www.birgitbachler.com/portfolio/?p=506
Create a custom joystick sound recorder
Uses: pygame
Source: Peter Westenberg, http://www.deschaarbeeksetaal.be/p/rugzak/
Slice & reorder an audio file by predominant frequency (NM/MM)
http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/spectrum/
Create clouds of 3D objects in Blender
https://github.com/Blender-Brussels/bpy-bge-library/blob/master/scripts/bpy/duplicate_object.py
Source: Julien Deswaef, Brussels Blender Group []
Create a dotcom index using letter permuations
http://www.roelroscamabbing.nl/dotcomindex.html
Source: User:Roelroscama, prototyping
Filter a subtitle file to highlight the unique words of a spoken text (Disappearance)
http://activearchives.org/wiki/Disappearance
Source: Alexandre Leray and Stéphanie_Vilayphiou
other
- Manipulate images with PIL?
- reportlab to generate a paginated PDF
- subprocess (Run a shell command & process it's output (using FFMPEG to get audio/video info))
- html5lib: simple scrape starting code
- glob
- urllib, urlparse, ...
- json
- optparse
- random
- datetime
- SimpleHTTPServer
- SocketServer / OSC
- turtle
- uuid
- zipfile
- xml (Read and extract data from an XML file)