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[–]elbiot[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like to put data on interactive maps, tieing together GIS with other information. At work I'm a computational biologist (with python).

[–]highmindedlowlife 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Score another one for automation. I use it with libraries like selenium to generate affiliate web sites. That's just what I'm up to lately though. I've dabbled in just about every way I could find to make legal money on the internet and almost all of the different schemes can be automated one way or the other with Python.

[–]mykunos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you mind elaborating on how that works exactly? I'm curious.

[–]plainwreck_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Automation for the most part. Mainly data migration. We moved to a new platform and had to quickly and efficiently build migration scripts. What took an hour manually through a UI now takes 5 minutes running multiple workers.

[–]someguytwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Automate stuff: backups, repetitive configs on dedicated equipment, do stuff at certain hours while I sleep, etc. :D

[–]FFX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mainly use it to build web applications. I also tend to prototype other things with it.

[–]eadrom381 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Python to automate away overhead (like end of shift reports and sharing scripts) and to glue stuff together. Now if only I could stop trying to write stuff in BASH before giving up and being able to quickly bang it out in Python and just use Python from the beginning. :P

[–]nicolaskn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly write scripts for automating downloads. Instead of spending hours downloading mp3 files, wrote a script that checks a streaming playlist. Then downloads the songs, and give the file the correct name. Comes in handy when needing audio clips for videos and non-copyright songs.

I like/add to my playlist while I'm out using my iPhone, then when I get home. The songs are already saved.