I mostly do it as a hobby. So i normally do not get into large projects and make scripts for personal reasons.
gaming -- I mostly use python for gaming via pygame. Thats what i enjoy to write. :)
web scrapers --- anything online that i look at for information, i usually scrape their site to just get what i want and the way i want it. For example i yard sale shop every weekend, and i wrote script to scrape a few different yard sale ad sites, put them together, and post it on a facebook group for yard sales that i manage every week.
automation -- sometimes i do things repetitively (like reinstall ubuntu every 6 months) and i hate setting up my pc every time. An automation script helps me install/modify/download/config, rather setup my pc the way i like it every time. I also wrote a script to automate some things i do for arch linux installs.
I used python for my wedding. I used it on my website to collect guest information (how many coming, how many kids, what they are eating, whether they arecoming ot the wedding and the reception or just one or the other, etc.) and directed all family and friends there. Then after my wedding i had made an option for people at the wedding to upload pics, and display them for everyone to see. AKA people needed to send me .raw image files and facebook degrades them. It was just easier to write it myself and have computer illiterate people go to one location to upload and view than direct them elsewhere.
I also wrote a couple IRC game bots. Craps and alchemy.
You know, stuff like that for personal reasons.
gaming -- I mostly use python for gaming via pygame. Thats what i enjoy to write. :)
web scrapers --- anything online that i look at for information, i usually scrape their site to just get what i want and the way i want it. For example i yard sale shop every weekend, and i wrote script to scrape a few different yard sale ad sites, put them together, and post it on a facebook group for yard sales that i manage every week.
automation -- sometimes i do things repetitively (like reinstall ubuntu every 6 months) and i hate setting up my pc every time. An automation script helps me install/modify/download/config, rather setup my pc the way i like it every time. I also wrote a script to automate some things i do for arch linux installs.
I used python for my wedding. I used it on my website to collect guest information (how many coming, how many kids, what they are eating, whether they arecoming ot the wedding and the reception or just one or the other, etc.) and directed all family and friends there. Then after my wedding i had made an option for people at the wedding to upload pics, and display them for everyone to see. AKA people needed to send me .raw image files and facebook degrades them. It was just easier to write it myself and have computer illiterate people go to one location to upload and view than direct them elsewhere.
I also wrote a couple IRC game bots. Craps and alchemy.
You know, stuff like that for personal reasons.
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