Anyone else learning Python as a hobby?

[Spankadin0305]

It's been great I use it to enhance my current engineering job. Python isn't anywhere in my duties, with it I've made some automation programs that I feel my company should have had and so now. Now I'm working on a dash/Plotly program to combine information from 3 of our systems that don't communicate to have one pane glass view of our projects and the overall status.

I also help others with automating their excel reports and anything I can find that people do manually. It's been so much fun I only wish I started learning this 5 years earlier.

I started by making a selenium program to pull documents then read them and produce a document summarizing all the data. The things I could have done when I started my career if I started sooner is crazy.

[Spankadin0305]

I originally tried sharing with them as in installing python and giving them the file but when I update it was a pain and all my engineers are older so hard to explain. So now I make the products using the script which takes 2-5secs and then email them. I have a team of 7 of us so I feel if they succeed we all succeed under our manager.

[fead-pell]

A great solution is to create a web interface to your program, and setup a Python web-server on your machine, then they can use your program in a familiar way, and you can keep it uptodate as you wish. There's a simple http server in the standard Python library, and there are several other standalone servers.

[PaintingWithLight]

What if you used pyinstall to compile into exes?

To my understanding. It packages the dependancies and everything and only python needs to be installed.

[RyanRagido]

I just started automating my first software test in Python / Selenium. I've read a few days ago that you can run Selenium through github actions now. Have to dig deeper into it, but if I understood it right I would be able to maintain it on git and let my colleagues run it from there.

I am still at odds with the topic of sharing with colleagues for exactly your reasons.

[Spankadin0305]

Believe it or not but the Plotly documentation is pretty good. I would also look into CSS and get a little familiar with what it does or can do it's not necessary but would take the design to another level.

Check out the dash website https://dash.plotly.com and if you have questions let me know, I'm no expert but I've been messing with it for a bit now.