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
TODO: include classic turtle graphics example + text about Papert, et al
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
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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
Generate an epub
Create generative fugues
Voice 01 (Octave 2)
File:Fugue 01 20110608.ogg
Voice 02 (Octave 3)
File:Fugue 04 20110530.ogg
Voice 03 (Octave 4)
File:Fugue 01-octave4 20110608.ogg
Source: Natasa Siencnik User:Natasa_Siencnik/prototyping/markov
Use open clip art and a loop to make a samples book
print """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve"
width="200px" height="50px"
viewBox="0 0 200 50"
zoomAndPan="disable" >"""
# vertical amount of elements
veramo = 20
# ydist increases the vertical distance
ydist = 10
for z in range(veramo):
transf = "transform=\"translate({0},{1})\">".format(0,z*ydist)
print "<g " + transf
# horizontal amount of elements
horamo = 20
# ydist2 increases the vertical distance
ydist2 = 10
# xdist increases the horizontal distance
xdist2 = 10
for x in range(horamo):
transf = "transform=\"translate({0},{1})\"".format(x*xdist,x*ydist2)
print "<rect " + transf + """ x="0" y="0" width="10" height="10" fill="black" />
print "</g>"
print "</svg>"
Source: Silvio Lorusso, User:Silviolorusso/Amanofmanyparts
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)