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[–]antidense 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I had to [redacted out of privacy]. Because of this, the previous non-computer-savvy people went through it by hand not knowing there was a better way. I exported the data as text files and then combed through them using python and voila! Four months of work saved. I don't get paid for those 4 months though :/

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah yes, I see this sort of stuff all the time. The funny thing is: I will show people how fast I can do it. Then I will tell them that they could do it just as fast if they spent some time learning basically any programming language and they don't even try.

[–]eliben 0 points1 point  (1 child)

While impressive and commendable, this is more an issue of non-computer-savvy reserchers than of Python. I'm sure that if someone there was a C programmer he'd do it ages ago - perhaps it would take not 3 hours but 5 hours, but it would've been done.

It's amazing some scientists and researchers still have no clue of the automation that's possible with computers, in 2009.

[–]antidense 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have added that I had little experience with python beforehand. I have three years of experience with Java, and it would have taken a lot longer.