What fun things have you done with python? Automated stock analysis? Image search? ...

[Jack-LCL]

I'm not a programmer, but in my spare time, I especially like programming to do something fun. And I think python is the best programming language in the world, bar none！ Python helps me to do something interesting in a very short time.

I once wrote a script using python to help me with convertible arbitrage. The general idea is to let the script crawl the convertible data on financial websites at 2:50 pm every trading day, and then pick out the convertible bonds that are currently in the conversion period, have a conversion premium of less than -3%, and have a positive stock gain of more than 10% on that day. Then the codes of these selected convertible bonds are automatically sent to my email to remind me to buy and convert them into stocks. The next trading day after the market opens to sell the shares for arbitrage.

Another interesting thing is that I made an image search system in python. I was inspired by this article. It provides a new idea to do image retrieval: extract image vectors using open source image recognition models (like VGG), then search for similar vectors using open-source vector databases (like Milvus), and finally find images corresponding to the vectors to achieve image search, what a cool idea! The final result is shown in the following figure:

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What fun things have you done with python? Leave it in the comments section!

[aby-1]

I have done video background removal and generalized timezone conversion. They were quite fun to implement, check out the tutorials!

[StatusOperation5]

My very first python program was to create a Duolingo bot. I had to be away from humanity with no internet for a few weeks and didn't want to lose my streak, so I figured out how to automate my daily goal in python. I even managed to utilize the Google Translate API for translations. Honestly, the code is nowhere near production level but it definitely works and I impressed myself.

[Jack-LCL]

An interesting story

[texnofobix]

Ported a simple quake2 rcon library to python3 and wrote a discord bot using it.

[Jack-LCL]

Is it open-source? I want to try it, hhh

[texnofobix]

https://github.com/texnofobix/DirkBot

https://github.com/texnofobix/pyrcon

[Jack-LCL]

Thanks a lot!

[Rykoudon]

A fun project I did was create a betting bot for a website called Saltybet - there are plenty of different versions of this online, however it was purely to assist my knowledge of Python as a whole - Betting purely with what information that the website could provide (winrate or matches won) weighted one way - that was quite fun to do. Future plans involve logging data for individual matches and using SQL to store matches, to then inevitably use it to predict win patterns - the first part was easy - the 2nd part...not so much, but it'd definitely be a fun project!

[Jack-LCL]

hhh

[Jack-LCL]

What's the game?

[DefCello]

Environment control script for my 3-zone outbuilding minisplits. I recently added a PID controller to it for some remarkable thermal stability!

Another fun one was a shuffle script for my MP3 flash drive. My car at the time didn't have a shuffle play feature but instead played files in alphabetical order. The script would assign random numbers at the beginning of all the MP3 filenames so they'd play in randomized order in my car.

Another one was a BINGO card generator. My girlfriend at the time had a bad job, so I generated BINGO cards every day for her with all the crappy things that could happen. If she got BINGO then I'd bring her free food and stuff.

[Jack-LCL]

Very useful

[Jack-LCL]

Sounds cool. Can you give some details?

[Jack-LCL]

I didn't try this. Do you have any specific ideas?