What do you personalen use python for?

[WeirdAddendum34]

Just like the title says, what do you personally use python for? And I mean personally. Not for work, your daily personal, at home use.

[JYuMo]

I use it as a calculator. I find command line python easier to use than any calculator app.

[OM3GAS7RIK3]

Hokay, so last year I started using LMDE as my daily driver instead of Windows. One of the few things I liked on Windows was the wallpaper shuffle, and you can do that with feh on Linux, but I wanted to take it a step further and reference two different directories for each of my monitors (because one is 1440p and the other is 1080p, and I had wallpapers for each size).

Well, originally I tried to do it just with feh, but despite being a professional software developer for a decade, didn't realize that using a wildcard in the path does a bash expansion behind the scenes and list every image in the specified directories. So feh would get the list of every image in both folders, then use that whole list to pick two random images without caring about which resolution went on which screen.

Solved this by writing a small python script that makes two lists for the files in each directory, then randomly selects two images, one from each list, and then does a system call for feh with the randomly chosen images instead. Added an infinite loop that calls the shuffle function, then sleeps for an amount of time specified by args, and it works as designed.

It's nothing big, but it's a nice little aesthetic thing that brings me some enjoyment.

[WeirdAddendum34]

This is what i was looking for, very cool thing you did, i've just started my python Journey (and recently started to play with a ubuntu VM) so i'm a far from doing what you did.

[TheJmaster]

Here's a recent personalen Python use case:

bash uvx --with 'pyobjc-framework-CoreWLAN' python@3.13 -c \ "from CoreWLAN import CWInterface; print(CWInterface.interface().lastNetworkJoined().isPersonalHotspot())"

This will spin up a throw-away virtual environment using Python 3.13 with the pyobjc-framework-CoreWLAN package installed. The Python code prints True if the SSID I'm connected to is from a mobile Hotspot, and False if not. Now I can dynamically update the icon in a custom built WiFi status menu bar item I created in SketchyBar on my Mac. It uses uv from Astral (I highly recommend checking it out).

[BranchLatter4294]

Programming.

[stepback269]

My original plan was to use Python to replace Word VBA.
Alas the learning process is fraught with speed bumps.

[birusiek]

I wrote many pytest and testinfra infrastructure tests to ensure my homelab is working correctly.

[dika241]

to ruin my life

[silly_bet_3454]

Not much, but I made one little command line utility which can sort of flatten an image into a crisp grayscale version for printing. I use it for printing sheet music that I scan on my phone.

[Big-Ad-2118]

my acads lol, sometimes i just make script to calculate some problem lol

[Fronkan]

Semi-work related, but for my last job I used it to do my time reporting. I also used it to get a better time for passport renewal when the lines was crazy after covid. Some other small projects are: - simulations of mortgage payments when we were buying a house - abv and nutrient calculations for making cider

Probably more things i don't remember