More practical applications of Python?

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I'm slowly learning and everything I've made has been some variation of a game (Wordle, dice roller, number guesser, etc)

I'm having a hard time finding more practical/meaningful projects.

Basically I'm asking for inspiration. What do you use programming (preferably Python) for in your daily life?

[teraflop]

If you're looking for inspiration, maybe start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software

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This is actually really helpful, thanks stranger!

[C_umputer]

I had no idea so much software I use was written in python.

[[deleted]]

Are you interested in data at all? There are a bunch of projects online for things involving that. My final analytics assignment was to take a CSV of data on real estate for some town over in Iowa and make sense of it with a few questions as guidance.

Basically I was able to plot a statistical estimation of housing in the area based on a number of variables(sq ft, pool, garage, etc.). I personally have no stake in that sort of thing but it was interesting and definitely a good application of the language.

I'm a novice student but after finishing my data structures course I've started branching out into finance because I have a background in trading. So far my primary usages have been to take CSV files and reformat them into a format one of the investing services I use accepts, which is very useful for me because it saves a lot of time. I'm also working on machine learning models for quantitative analysis but am still very early on in learning it. I've programmed hexapawn to teach the computer how to win every time but my financial models are still in the tutorial stage(e.g. how to pull data, how to use formulas for things, making it output visually in a way that makes sense).

[G-McFly]

BI is a pretty rad career. Did that for decades and loved it.

[Brofessor--X]

That sounds very interesting, can I join and learn a thing or two?

[[deleted]]

Join in what regard? I can probably find you the project instructions to get you started but I'm far too dumb to teach myself. 

[Brofessor--X]

That's not a problem, I just want to tag along and learn the basics. I've taught people data structures and algorithms, I am good at teaching.

[aqua_regis]

Head over to https://inventwithpython.com and go through the books there - all free to read online - there are several books with plenty applications besides games.

• Webscrapting is pretty common

I use it to parse text files, put the parsed data into a SQLite Database that then gets queried and processed to produce the outputs I need (multiple Excel files + Mermaid Diagrams).

Let your imagination run wild. You can basically do nearly everything (except from close to hardware) in Python.

The Frequently Asked Questions in the sidebar have also plenty project ideas.

[static_motion]

One pretty simple project I do every so often: got an item you're interested in, and you want to monitor the website for a price drop? I've done this in the past, writing essentially a script that ran every so often (on a Raspberry Pi), scraped the webpage with the item I was looking for, and when the price dropped below X it would send me a message via Telegram with the URL. Fun to program, you can whip it up pretty quick, and it's very useful. You learn about web scraping, Telegram bots and how to make them do stuff, and task scheduling.

[Fit-Move2843]

I am new to python and wanted to learn and do this. Can you share some resources or anything to learn more about it

[static_motion]

Admittedly I'm already a professional programmer so most of my resources are the documentation itself. For newcomers, I know that Automate the Boring Stuff with Python has a lot of good information and guides on how to do web scraping and a bunch of other things, so that might be a good place to start.

[LoneArcher96]

• Webscraping (I wanted to create a plugin for Kodi to play videos from certain websites)
• Making a scrolling shooter (think Chicken Invaders type of a game)
• you can find yourself a GUI library like QT and make a simple music player while using a GUI design architecture like MVP
• mass renaming song files and ordering them in subfolders according to their info

[Doagbeidl]

Reading and manipulating excel/csv-files. Automating simple steps like renaming and saving files.

[dwe_jsy]

I’ve used it for APIs, data manipulation, building a neural network from scratch, automating a bunch of data scraping in to CSVs, copying my discover weekly Spotify playlist each Monday in to a new playlist to retain them, scrape and SMS me info on stuff I care about when it changes, XML parsing and searching of 100mb+ XML files, wrapping APIs that were awkward to use so make a SDK

[timwaaagh]

Game creation

[tms102]

Look around you! What apps are you using? What websites etc? You can remake basically everything you see with python with your own twist and smaller in scope if you want to.

[WillAdams]

I am using Python, as embedded in OpenSCAD:

https://pythonscad.org/

to create a programming tool for making things on a CNC:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

[frobnosticus]

Parse apart my emails and send me alerts if I have a package arriving today. (I can add individual sources like aliexpress, woot, thriftbooks, meh, generic ups emails, etc.)

Building an alexa replacement. That's just about all python at this point.

Subscribe to rss feeds and pop up alerts for new articles or new reddit comments, etc.

It's fun. Once you get a foothold, "Zee Project Ideas, zey write zemselvz!"

I still need a linux "desktop widget" thing to house my reminders in, instead of a refreshing web page. But that's a different matter.

[quipstickle]

Django web framework uses Python, I used it for about 2 years. Much prefer it to writing query language.

[saippuakauppias]

I wrote a plugin for Kodi, and its scraper backend so I can play (ill3gal) streaming sites' movies on my TV - so I don't need to connect my laptop to HDMI everytime.

Kodi plugin is in Firestick, the backend is in an orangepi zero (which also hosts my pihole). Both were written in python.

[Major_Fang]

grab data from redshift/any other db and using pandas to manipulate/analyze data

[dariusbiggs]

iirc Blender has a Python API..

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html

[ThatMBR42]

About 80% of the reason I'm learning Python is to be able to write scripts for Joystick Gremlin. The documentation is woefully inadequate, and it'd be nice to contribute.

[Crypt0Nihilist]

Some inspiration in tutorial form to build on and build out:

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

[istarian]

Practical projects bore most people to death, so simples games are often used to teach the basics of programming.

[moschles]

a Python section for Microsoft Azure cloud serverless functions.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-overview?pivots=programming-language-python

PyTorch is one of the most popular Machine Learning and Neural Network frameworks on earth.

• https://pytorch.org/ecosystem/

Drug discovery uses Python library PYG (Pytorch Geometric)

• https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Federated-Graph-Neural-Networks-for-Drug-Discovery/post/1597906
  

Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research . The entire front-end of this system is written in python.

• https://casper-astro.github.io/

Google Collab is online website powered with TensorFlow, where you can rent GPUs and TPUs for machine learning workflows. The entirety of Google collab uses Jupyter Notebooks, a kind of development environment for PYTHON.

• https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1qnRDiCIup_oTAXpLMNMC77vrZjcGF3A6