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How do you use Python in a not "professional developer" way?

David MM👨🏻‍💻 on September 14, 2019

I love Python. In fact, for a few years it has been my favourite language (Maybe I change my mind after trying Go...). But one of my favourite fea...

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Casi Imin • Sep 14 '19

I'm not a professional programmer, especially in Python.
In the past I've tried to make various automation script, for fun.
Three of the best:
a wireless (based on sockets) transfer script, from and to pc (Mac) and mobile (iOS)
a web crawler in httplib, urllib and regex (for find pdf's research in Google)
a remote system controller via email

/laugh

David MM👨🏻‍💻 • Sep 14 '19

That's cool. I was playing this week with reading-deleting-modifying-etc files but next week I'm going to start with email automation.

The wireless socket transfer sounds great, I like the idea.

Casi Imin • Sep 14 '19

Nice! Have a nice pydev ;)

Benjamin Kooiman-Cox • Sep 16 '19 • Edited

I have to use registry scripts to set up auto-logins for digital signage computers. Rather than keeping a bunch of dangerous registry-editing scripts on my filesystem, I wrote a Python script that takes a template, combines it with login info from a JSON file, and creates the necessary registry script. That way I can create them as needed and delete them when I'm done without worrying about losing the information or accidentally running them.

I also have to inspect exit signs throughout my workplace. In order to keep track of these inspections, I made a web page that queries a SQLite database via AJAX requests to Python cgi scripts. When I need to log a new inspection, I just run py -m http.server --cgi and go to localhost:8000/ in my browser. It's kind of kludgy in its current state, but I'm thinking about re-implementing it with Django.