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.

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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

EricSchrijverProgrammaticallyManipulatingTypfaces.png

Using fontforge and robofab

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/

Run a web server

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 detourned search engine

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~sschmieg/cgi-bin/g+7/index.py

Source: Sebastian Schmieg with Silvio Lorusso

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

RugzakPeterWestenberg.jpg

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

Scetchbook2011-02 markov.jpg

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 book of patterns

Amanofmanyparts.gif

Uses: SVG, Inkscape 

 
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

Generating Outline Fonts with 5 Lines of Code

Douar-outline-1024x640.png 

import fontforge
font = fontforge.open('douar.sfd')
for glyph in font:
    font[glyph].stroke('circular',  30, 'square', 'bevel', ('cleanup',))
font.generate('douar-new.ttf')

Uses: FontForge

Source: Ricardo Lafuente, http://blog.manufacturaindependente.org/2011/02/generating-outline-fonts-with-5-lines-of-code/

Create interactive vector graphics

http://www.stuartaxon.com/2013/03/20/natural-movement-in-python-part-3-particles/#more-331

Uses: Shoebot (http://shoebot.net/)

Source: Stuart Axon and Ricardo Lafuente

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)
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