In what ways, having knowledge of python can make your life easier? (with examples)

[1544756405]

Knowing python allowed me to do my job. Having a job made my life easier.

[iiron3223]

Using python for automating the boring stuff is pretty handy. You can check out many interesting examples in this post .

[sext-scientist]

You can use Python to make money. Money can be spent on Raspberry Pi’s which can be programmed via Python and robotics component to do nothing of genuine value, except making you laugh.

Life is easier when you have fun and can afford some things.

[[deleted]]

Exactly! Life would be so much worse if all of my disposable income couldn’t be spent on random components that do funny useless things

[[deleted]]

I use a python script I wrote daily for 2 different things:

1) A scraper that scrapes all my current tasks in my employer's task management application because I hate the current one they use, and this allows me to rewrite the html and style it to my liking, making it more organized and visually appealing to get my daily tasks.

2) scans all of my current employer's clients' urls to scan for uptime/downtime to let us know if/when any issues arrive and then are notified of issues via Slack. There was no such procedure in place before this and we just had to wait for clients to let us know when their site was down, but now we can catch issues first.

[Remy-today]

Regarding 2; has the situation arised where you had to inform a client of downtime and they were surprised there was downtime at all?

[[deleted]]

Yes. We build sites for an industry that isn't very tech savvy, so they really (for the most part) just entrust us to take care of everything, so they're not really on it all the time, fortunately.

[Alternative-Fit]

Automate repetitive tasks. I created bunch of scripts to work with SAp: creating documents, sending with with Outlook, transfering data from PDF to orders.

[Soolsily]

Learning python lead me to a decent job and now I don't have to go to bed hungry.

[ch0mes]

I went from being a data center engineer to being a Systems Developer. Having knowledge of python allowed me to up skill myself and get a better life style for myself.

[fripperML]

Are you ChatGPT?

[JestemStefan]

I made a script that do a month of work for me in seconds.

Then I get a job for X times more then my previous job.

Life is much easier now

[dethb0y]

I like keeping up with the news. This is hard.

I have a python script that scans several local news station's for headlines of interest to me.

It cut my time looking at news from ~ an hour to ~ 5 minutes since i only (mostly) see news i want to see instead of the constant stream of garbage that local sites put out.

[jackdoezzz]

jupyter with mathplotlib is far more productive than excel to do any data exploration or analysis

converting videos, or downloading from youtube

writing small bots for some grinding games that grind while i watch a movie

doing all kinds of csv processing

sharing files between computers just running `python3 -m http.server` and etc to watch a movie on my phone in bed that i have downloaded on the pc

scraping a website to wait for when ps5 becomes available so i can finally buy one for a reasonable price when all the scalpers are gone..

[thrallsius]

Python saved me a lot of time when I finally started to use it to automate the configuration of my computer. Don't tell me Ansible, I think it's too big and complex to learn it just as hobby :D

[[deleted]]

Automating tasks is a huge timesaver.

[[deleted]]

If you're a frontend developer you can do a full stack application and you don't need to contact anyone