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.

Code/links/images to be added

Generating tactical text hybrids

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Using nltk

Source: Femke Snelting, http://snelting.domainepublic.net/files/EmmaWoodhouse.odt

Programmatically Manipulating Typefaces

Using fontforge and robofab

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/

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

http://vimeo.com/50859298

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?
• subprocess (Run a shell command & process it's output (FFMPEG!))
• html5lib
• glob
• urllib, urlparse, ...
• json
• optparse
• random
• datetime
• SimpleHTTPServer
• SocketServer / OSC
• turtle
• uuid
• zipfile
• xml (Read and extract data from an XML file)