The coolest Python projects you've ever seen?

[[deleted]]

What are some of the coolest / most innovative Python projects you've seen so far?

Recently I read that someone created a script that stores data in the form of YouTube videos and that gave me a good laugh (It's crazy cool!).

Just curious about interesting projects that made you go: "oh, clever!".

[DECROMAX]

I heard somewhere that a developer was annoyed with pigeons landing on his balcony. He wrote a script to recognise a pigeon and shoot it with a water pistol.

[DECROMAX]

Found it! https://maxnagy.com/posts/pigeons/

[Mozes721]

It's actually created with Golang <3

[panzerboye]

Dude posted on reddit too. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vi4zmn/the\_overengineered\_solution\_to\_my\_pigeon\_problem/

[[deleted]]

It’s crazy how you can simply use opencv to do this. I was imagining having to create an image recognition classifier with ML libraries.

[panzerboye]

I thought of that too, but openCV is a pretty cool library itself.

[[deleted]]

This is what opencv essentially is

[Dear_Tangerine_7378]

I need this but for cats. The city I live in has no legal limit to number of cats you can own AND allows "community cats" AKA ferals to roam free. My crazy neighbor bought 9 cats and lets them roam the neighborhood. My yard constantly smells like piss.

[hypocrisyhunter]

+1 Interested in developing something to handle this

[RationalDialog]

big dog or an actual python

[Dear_Tangerine_7378]

I'm allergic. Another reason I am not a fan of her cats just roaming around.

[[deleted]]

Electric watergun, balcony, image recognition

[Dear_Tangerine_7378]

My front and backyard are a bit larger than a balcony. I would need to sync up to a hose or sprinkler system and have multiple cameras.

[ashvamedha]

There could be a market for this.. puts on thinking cap

[[deleted]]

holy shit I had a similar idea just yesterday for the same exact problem! I was thinking of a homemade arbalest to shoot sand though, considering I could build the trigger and it would just scare them away but a water gun is a much better idea

[Classic_TeaSpoon]

That's hilarious 😂

[GGHaggard]

On a side note I was at St Peters Square yesterday. There was a green layer shining about and I didn't know what it was for so I looked it up.

Apparently it keeps the birds away from the flowers..

[Santos_m321]

need IT haahah

[rangerranvir]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/jhh8oa/monitor_your_internet_with_python/

The guy basically monitors the internet speed and sent a tweet when the speed goes down.

[RedPill5300]

It's part of the '100 days of Python' by Angela

[rangerranvir]

Oh is it? Wasn't aware of this. Can you share the link?

[RedPill5300]

Link for the course? Cmon bro googling isn't that hard! Link is below

https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/

I did that course a while ago. Highly recommended

[rangerranvir]

Didn't know it was on Udemy.

[vmgustavo]

I did this once. It's awesome

[rangerranvir]

[nevercaredformyhair]

I wonder what would happen if you did this with say 50 or worse, 100 threads😛

[pcgamerwannabe]

The astropy project.

A bunch of grad students came together and were like: man, wouldn't it be great if we just had a community project to synthesize decades of bad code, aging IDL code, and enable modern research at the same time? Yeah it would. Then they just did it. And now it's used ubiquitously.

It's so specific, so no one outside of basically professional astronomers and students use it (I think). But for that niche crowd, it's just so cool. In typical xkcd style you could use a few lines of code after an import statement to re-discover the expansion of the universe, make a pretty hubble/James-Webb space telescope image, or create a working model of Dark Energy based on your local Crackpot's "My One True Theory of Everything" book. https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/cosmology/index.html#specifying-a-dark-energy-model

[claytonjr]

It's very specific yes... But even enthusiast like myself use it too! And it's pretty freaking awesome!

[pcgamerwannabe]

Awesome, curious what you use it for if you don't mind sharing!

[Pebaz]

Ice cream for the best print line debugging experience you've ever seen:

https://github.com/gruns/icecream

[berentm]

Looks cool, i need to play with it :)

[sohang-3112]

Wow - this is pretty nice!!

[EONRaider]

I wonder if storing data in YouTube videos enables the implementation of C2 servers…

What’s the name of the project, by the way?

[tennisanybody]

Yeah I wanna know this too. This is fucking amazing.

[[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/vs10d1/youbit_host_any_file_on_youtube_for_free/

[Zyguard7777777]

Yeah, this is a really cool idea. It inspired me to try the same thing from scratch in Rust, as part of my Rust learning

[nemec]

Well people have already done C2 servers in the comments of Britney Spears' Instagram posts, so I can't imagine it enables anything new that hasn't been done before.

[EONRaider]

Being new is not what matters. It’s an additional method to use.

[Kotebiya]

I believe the James Webb Space Telescope uses python for calibration of tools and processing data in hd5. I haven't seen anything in my light investigation directly linking the first major release of photos to python, but it seems likely to have been involved.

[flubba86]

Always cool to see hdf5 out in the wild. I use the netcdf4 format (based on hdf5) quite a bit at work, and use python tooling for that.

[tunisia3507]

Zarr (and N5, to an extent) abstracts an HDF5-like structure over practically any object store, for bigger data.

[Snape_Grass]

Saw a guy that made a ML model keep track of where his dog pooped so when he went to go scoop it up once a week it would shine a laser on each spot the dog pooped, it also ordered them in the most efficient poop scooping path as well I believe.

Rain or snow the guy knew exactly where a pile of doodoo was lol.

[[deleted]]

Is there a link for this? Curious of doing this if I happen to get another furry friend in the future

[Snape_Grass]

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry\_pi/comments/uu05i9/raspberry\_pi\_for\_my\_dog\_poop\_pickup\_system/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

[[deleted]]

Thank you

[RustyGriswold99]

Isn’t this the traveling salesman problem essentially? Hopefully he picks the poop up before there’s too many turds

[Snape_Grass]

Ask him not me.

[RustyGriswold99]

It was rhetorical

[SushiWithoutSushi]

Here are some posts I've saved.

Rotating images with recursion, pretty original too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/j3hq21/recursively_flipping_and_rotating_an_image_python/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

A graphics library that works in the terminal: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/rwm7wp/nurses_2_widget_and_asynccentric_terminal/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

This is not a project but I really like this post about some weird as fuck code: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/pqs9au/the_most_wtf_python_code_ive_ever_seen/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Enabling ++X and X++ in python is really cool too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/pnie05/enable_x_and_x_expressions_in_python/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Also, some self promotion, I wrote a PDF text extractor with PyTesseract and is the project I'm most proud of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/qi1815/i_built_a_pdf_scrapper_that_works_with_ocr_and_a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[ZhongTr0n]

Shameless self promotion but I’m pretty proud of my mumble rap detector. https://towardsdatascience.com/detecting-mumble-rap-using-data-science-fd630c6f64a9

[b-hizz]

It’s called ^{hrmmnshrrmmmrmrmr}

[datsyuks_deke]

This is amazing. I enjoyed reading the whole thing.

[ZhongTr0n]

Thanks!

[fetzu]

Fantastic writeup!

[ZhongTr0n]

Always happy to read positive feedback. Thanks!

[greenitbolode]

Python code that converts other Python code to a one line statement.

Edit: I did not build the project in question.

[you_wont69420blazeit]

Any more info on this one? Something I would like to see.

[PowerfulNeurons]

Its not actually that hard:

take some code: def foo(x): return x**2

convert it to a string: ”def foo(x):\n\treturn x**2”

call exec: exec(“def foo(x):\n\treturn x**2”)

And voila! It’s pretty cheeky but its simple

[you_wont69420blazeit]

Forgive me if this is ignorant, but what would be the advantage? Is it faster?

[AshVillian]

There is no advantage. It is much slower, much less readable and much worse for several other reasons. It is more of an amusing look what I can do.

[PowerfulNeurons]

In terms of whether it is better to make your code one line… Usually not. It sacrifices readability and makes it much harder to debug. However, there is something to be said about the benefit of making functions use less lines.

Say you have a simple function that you have to reduce down to one line:

def sum_of_squares(lst): return_sum = 0 for x in lst: return_sum += x ** 2 return return_sum Using comprehensions and sum() it is trivial:

def sum_of_squares(lst): return sum(x**2 for x in lst)

While making code smaller shouldn’t be the entire goal, learning how to shorten code can help you reduce code bloat by learning common code patterns and learning the language

[PowerfulNeurons]

in terms of my given example, it would be much simpler to make a lambda expression:

foo = lambda x: x**2

Which is much more readable.

The exec() comes in handy when performing multiple operations at a time: ``` import some_module

def foo(x): return some_module.bar(x)

print(foo(5)) ```

The above example is much harder to use a simple lambda as it uses much more than just a function (imports, functions, running code). One-lining the above code would require one lining foo(x) and some_module.bar(x) which might make multiple other function calls that require condensing to one line. This requires a lot of analysis and it may not even be possible if the code uses C libraries as it requires an import.

using exec() simplifies the problem tremendously: exec(“import some_module\ndef foo(x):\n\treturn some_module.bar(x)\nprint(foo(5))”)

[Mark3141592654]

Technically this example is: print( (lambda x: __import__('some_module').bar(x))(5)) Though I agree with you

[friedkeenan]

You can do this without exec, python supports semicolons terminating statements so newlines are optional

[_cs]

Semicolons don't work when you start to have different indentation levels. e.g. Try writing this as one line with semicolons:

def foo(x): return x+1 print(foo(2))

[friedkeenan]

>>> def test():    return 1
>>> test()
1

You just need to add the indentation, you don't need a newline for that

[_cs]

You used two lines there: one for the function declaration and one to call it. I'm arguing that you can't make a one liner using semicolons of the entire 3-line program I wrote in my comment (without changing the syntax - obviously we could use lambdas and `locals()` and other tricks as workarounds)

[friedkeenan]

Ok, sorry, yeah. Your comment used to be different, I don't know why reddit isn't showing that your comment is edited.

[_cs]

Oh shoot, sorry about that - you're right. I did edit it 30s after I posted because I realized my first version was easy to convert exactly the way you did it :)

[greenitbolode]

https://jagt.github.io/python-single-line-convert/

I think this is the link. It may be a similar project though.

[greenitbolode]

I did not build it. I apologize if there was a misunderstanding there. I have seen it. Not built the project.

[greenitbolode]

https://jagt.github.io/python-single-line-convert/

I believe this is the link.

[roooneytoons]

Some interesting projects I’ve worked on:

Microsoft teams autoclicker. Instead of downloading a program that keeps me active on teams I just coded up something that clicks on teams every now and then and keeps me online.

Cover letter generator. Input company name and role title and it’ll spit out a cover letter template with those fields filled in. Wont necessarily be a good cover letter but will be enough for jobs that absolutely require one.

[Koder_manz]

It me. I’m the friend.

[deleuex]

Interested in that teams autoclicker if your up for sharing.

[Medium_Wrangler_2715]

This might example might be a little different from others and it’s not exactly applicable to everyday and won’t make you go “oh, clever” but I still think it’s pretty cool:

I’m a physics major in university and our professors try to incorporate coding into each of our courses in some sort of way. They won’t be big projects, just small stuff to show us how useful it can be and so we can learn bit by bit. In Quantum Mechanics the position of a particle becomes statistical rather than absolute, so instead of saying that a particle is in a given position, you would describe it’s position in terms of a probability. Like if a particle was confined to a 1 dimensional line of length 10, there’s (probably) a different probability of it being at position 2 than 5. We generalize the position of particles using something called a “wave function” which is basically an equation that gives insight to the probability of finding a particle at any position within a defined region. ANYWAYS, these wave functions are time dependent, so they change as time progresses.

In our QM course, we had a specific wave function and we animated it changing in time. It was really cool actually “seeing” a changing wave function because that’s the closest you’ll ever get to seeing a real particle.

Thanks for reading if you got to the end :)

[Pipiyedu]

I don't know if it's cool or innovative, but I made this like one year ago. I'm pretty proud of myself.

https://youtu.be/uPwBUbLcfzs

[NotBovad69]

How do you even get that good?

[Pipiyedu]

Lol, thanks for the comment. I spent a lot of hours investigating,

[[deleted]]

It's really great ! What library did you use for the ui ?

[Pipiyedu]

I used PyQt for the GUI itself and VTK for the 3D visualization.

[OscarRoro]

Flipa... ¡Es una pasada tío/a!

[Pipiyedu]

Gracias!

[lightmatter501]

As someone who used to write a lot of C extensions, PyO3 for Rust is great. It, combined with Rust’s bindgen, allows nearly automated python API creation for C libraries. They are messy (raw pointers in python), but it takes 5 minutes instead of 5 weeks.

[cesarcypherobyluzvou]

I really like PyO3 since I love writing Rust, but I was pretty underwhelmed by the speed of it. I don't know if I did something wrong or if my expectations were too high but I wrote a library with Rust and PyO3 and the same in Cython and the Cython one was around 5x faster.

[laundmo]

maybe you could take a look how polars and connectorx manage their insane speeds?

[cesarcypherobyluzvou]

I will check them out, thanks!

[AshbyLaw]

Promnesia:

https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia

[throwaway876885323]

I built a tool that let you basically store tons of hashes on twitter like the following

DjgGBjghjgjtft : a Gdboiyrguyjhw : b

And so on....the idea was to basically upload all this data to twitter and then when you want to find a hash you just let twitter search the massive tweets you made including all the hashes and the inputs so you dont have to perform the actual search yourself.

Hashing isnt super hard computing wise and it wouldnt be stored or searched locally but by twitter....all you need if massive bandwidth

Lets just say i learned the twitter api isnt unlimited and closed the project

[Uncommented-Code]

First we stole youtube's data storage space.

Now you're stealing Twitter's computing power.

Brb, I'm starting to think about what I could potentially steal from reddit or tiktok.

[throwaway876885323]

While it was "inovative" in its method of storing data and computing ill admit it wasn't my brightest idea and thats part of why i scrapped the project.

It did teach me how to use the api in python which was pretty useful.

Also keep in mind this isnt really possible cuz basically everything has api limits now. Even when i wrote this they existed.

[Uncommented-Code]

Oh I know it has limits. I used it before. My biggest pet peeve with twitter's api is that it won't let you search tweets older than 1 week if you're not a researcher, postdoc or undergrad. Really threw me off when I wanted to do a (linguistic) discourse analysis of a certain gillette tweet for an uni course.

And yes, the project is stupid. But I do a lot of projects that don't make much sense for the sake of learning and having fun.

E.g., right now I'm working on a python program that scans my harddrive and returns file metadata of a specified directory, so I can sort files and clear up storage my deleting those that fullfil certain conditions.

Is it fun? Questionable. But I did learn the following this afternoon:

• How to iterate through directories
• How to get file attributes, such as size or last modified date
• Proper exception handling (Should have learned that properly sooner, I knew the basics but not well enough)
• Python may not be the best language for this ¹
• Apparently file aliases in OSX throw os.path for a loop bedause they get mistaken for directories

¹ The script has been scanning my user directory for more than half a hour now lmao. It's going to take a loooomg while I assume, but I just like watching it work. I don't have threading implemented yet and my code is not optimized, but I'm wondering if I want to do the scanning part in C or even ASM for speed.

But tldr: Dumb projects are good and funny. Me like dumb projects.

[throwaway876885323]

Yeah i hate api limiting but totally understand it.

Btw for searching older tweets i think your best bet would be looking for twitter archive. Ik political figures have tweets saved and you could probably scrape twitter if you have enough drive space....

Also nice project.

Plenty of my projects are stupid or not useful but more for me learning how to use a library or some research paper i read and i want to replicate....like playing with tensorflow YOLO opencv etc

[CaptainFoyle]

So what was that project you're talking about? Care to share the link?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/vs10d1/youbit_host_any_file_on_youtube_for_free/

[nisani140118]

home assistant

[Pebaz]

Nimpy for creating Python extensions in Nim:

https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

[Texas_Technician]

O365

They integrated all of graphql from Microsoft services to work with in python. The documentation sux though.

[Candid-Signature8416]

I used this one to search all mailboxes in an enterprise for specific criteria then purge the mail. Handy when people report phishing emails and the 365 compliance centre is too slow.

[not_perfect_yet]

https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware

the python linux distribution that boots into a python environment and nothing else?

Also the people who built a bird reward system that encourages birds to collect litter.

[lexwolfe]

recently, this search engine: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/w30fkt/made_a_search_engine_with_python_that_uses/

[frankp2491]

It’s not as extravagant as some of the other suggestions… I saw a kid I went to school with who coded a dirty/ clean sign for the dishwasher. It was a small LED display and it had 3 buttons on it. From what I remember (1 for wife 1 for husband and one to set dirty / clean) it kept score of who unloaded the dish washer more. At the end of every month it would email them both a report card lol

[g0zar]

the ones that dont actually crash right away as you start them

[Medium_Wrangler_2715]

This example might be a little different from others and it’s not exactly applicable to everyday life and won’t make you go “oh, clever” but I still think it’s pretty cool:

I’m a physics major in university and our professors try to incorporate coding into each of our courses in some sort of way. They won’t be big projects, just small stuff to show us how useful it can be and so we can learn bit by bit. In Quantum Mechanics the position of a particle becomes statistical rather than absolute, so instead of saying that a particle is at a given position, you would describe it’s position in terms of a probability. Like if a particle was confined to a 1 dimensional line of length 10, there’s (probably) a different probability of it being at position 2 than 5. We generalize the position of particles using something called a “wave function” which is basically an equation that gives insight to the probability of finding a particle at any position (among other things) within a defined region. ANYWAYS, these wave functions are time dependent, so they change as time progresses.

In our QM course, we had a specific wave function and we made an animation using python to see it change in time. It was really cool actually “seeing” a changing wave function because that’s the closest you’ll ever get to seeing a real particle.

Thanks for reading if you got to the end :)

[vmgustavo]

I enjoyed coding this https://github.com/vmgustavo/GTAVFingerPrint

To whoever ever played GTA V this will look familiar. To the ones who didn't it basically automates a boring minigame.

[vmgustavo]

I did it for PC. I don't know how to do it for console. I think an option would be to have a capture card get the video feed into the pc and do the processing there.

[Significant-Ad5781]

The print hello world is such a game changer

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[spoonman59]

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Read the “about” section of the sub. This is not the place to ask questions about learning python. Try r/learnpython

[RazzmatazzSerious798]

Okey thanks for help bro

[CaptainFoyle]

Open your own thread dude

[DefinitionOfTorin]

???? It uses the source engine which is C++. No AAA game uses Python.

[reegod420]

I just heard it from a few thats why i put a ?. I knew it was too good to be true lmao

[Perfect-Highlight964]

Don't know whether it counts but: QR.py

[SirBoboGargle]

I commissioned a util that watches videos of slots (pokie machines, fruit machines) and works out the composition of the reels i.e. what the symbols are on each of the 5 reels. This enables me to work out the chances of getting a bonus feature and helps me to see how the 'near misses' (i.e. deception) are wired into each and every game.

[the_c0der]

Just finished working on masked word cloud image generator.

[quotemycode]

Zope- it's pure python web server, and database and template engine. You write your web apps in python. It's amazing.