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.

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

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

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 record

Source: Peter Westenberg, http://www.deschaarbeeksetaal.be/p/rugzak/

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]