Twenty things to do with a python script
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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.
Generating tactical text hybrids
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
Running a mini-webserver
Permute the spellings of search terms
Source: Linda Hilfling, the experiments were developed later into the Misspelling generator browser plugin & project
Write a geolocation spider (Roel)
Generate an epub
Scrape Albert Heijn Loyalty Cards
Source: Birgit Bachler, http://www.birgitbachler.com/portfolio/?p=506
Create a custom joystick sound record
Source: Peter Westenberg, http://www.deschaarbeeksetaal.be/p/rugzak/