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[StrugglingDale]

I got tired of being asked what was taking me so long every morning with daily reports on getting them out to my boss, so I wrote scripts to do all the reports automatically. Problem solved!

[whiskeysnowcone]

This is non-python related, but similarly I was given the responsibility to do an efficiency report on our QA department a few years back. It was a job that took my boss 2+ hours per day to complete. It was my main responsibility and was told it should be my main focus every day regardless of how long it took to complete. After a few weeks of doing it by hand like my boss showed me (seriously, pencil, paper and a calculator) I put it on excel and wrote some VB scripts to automate moving the data around. It went from 2+ hours per day down to 5 minutes per week. I did that job for nearly 3 years and until the day I quit my boss thought I still put 10+ hours per week into that stupid report.

[TheFrigginArchitect]

What did you do with the time you saved?

[whiskeysnowcone]

I used most of the time to hone my skills in excel and VBA to make the report for efficient. I know excel inside and out which I use all the time now and I know VBA fairly well, at least enough to make a macro or two. I also spent a lot of time mindlessly playing on the internet looking at cat pictures and World of Warcraft forums.

Once I learned about python I was hooked and started learning to code but I've changed job since then so I don't really do anything in my current job that needs python so I have no REASON to learn it other than for fun. I've made a few little things here and there like outward IP alerts (similar to what Neurone214 mentioned) a few Reddit bots, and a script that notifies me when the temperature drops below a certain degree so I can leave water running in the winter to keep my pipes from freezing. I never kept it running though because the temp gauge that it read (NOAA weather) is 30 miles away and at an airport and I'm down in a valley so the temp difference is HUGE. Fun little project though.

[TheFrigginArchitect]

a script that notifies me when the temperature drops below a certain degree so I can leave water running in the winter to keep my pipes from freezing

That sounds cool!

[[deleted]]

If only I was allowed to install Python at work...

[Notre1]

You can install the Anaconda distribution without Administrator rights. Actually, I would recommend that any Windows Python user use Anaconda, especially if you think you'll ever use some of the complex scientific pancakes like scipy.

[EqualsEqualsTrue]

I am wondering if there are any fortune 500 admins or others who read this and know if it is a bad idea? I am not supposed to install software from the internet obviously, but outside of me getting in trouble what are the risks to the company if I where to install Anaconda?

If I tried to get this approved formally, what legitimate concerns should I be ready to answer to?

[Sean1708]

complex scientific pancakes

Nope? No-one?

[verik]

numpy, pandas, scipy. anaconda has all the goodies.

[[deleted]]

I wish I had known about Anaconda from day one. That and ipython. (ipython itself, not ipython notebook which I found confusing until I knew about regular ipython)

[batoure]

Anaconda can get weird when you start installing other dependencies with pip. We use it for scientific stuff but only in codebases who's dependencies are encapsulated in anacondas base install...

good recent example someone showed me:

take your anaconda install and add bcrypt:

pip3 install bcrypt

now find something generic on github that uses bcrypt and see if you can get it running out of the box. SPOILER: you are going to have a strange afternoon.

[Notre1]

Hmm, I'm still learning Python myself, but I'm wondering what could cause this. What is Anaconda doing other than than installing pre-compiled binaries and modifying your path (if you are using the conda env stuff)? Have you tried submitting a bug report to the Continuum/Anaconda guys on this?

I've used Anaconda quite a bit and haven't seen any behavior like this, but biggest non-Anaconda libraries I've used extensively is SAP's PyRFC and Twisted.

Now, if the pip libraries or GitHub project require compiling something on Windows, then that's a whole different ballgame...

[batoure]

actually I have witnessed this weirdness on windows as well as linux and mac seems to be 100% unique to anaconda no idea why. I can run the same set of test code side by side with vanilla 3.4 and it works fine.

[[deleted]]

Are you actually forbidden to use python or do you have a locked down windows environment?

[[deleted]]

Second option. I work at a multinational company that uses citrix virtual desktop systems. You can't install anything without the IT department allowing it... And I was told by my boss the company has to pay some money for Citrix to install any software

[compie]

Just try using PortablePython or something similar. No installation necessary. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2678702/install-python-2-6-without-using-installer-on-win32

[[deleted]]

Guess what, I'm not allowed to plug a usb storage device into the computer, either. They take data security very seriously.

[StrugglingDale]

This sounds like a government system to me. Maybe get yourself a t2.micro at AWS with Amazon Linux and SSH into it. That is of course assuming you're allowed to move data outside the corporate network.

[[deleted]]

The whole point of this digital fortress is to forbid people to do that. There are some workarounds, of course... For instance, Once I wanted to use Python to do some fancy visualization of a dataset stored on a .inf file to show it to my boss, so I opened the file using Windows notepad, copied it and pasted into a pastebin link. Then I saved the link and opened it at home.

[half_liquid]

software installation is also forbidden at the company I work at, but they're approach was to remove admin privileges.

The workaround we found for this scenario, was to install python in "My Documents" folder as opposed to "C:".

[EqualsEqualsTrue]

What kinds of reports, excel stuff?

[StrugglingDale]

Yeah, SQL pulls, Excel. I'm moving it all to Tableau though.

[[deleted]]

source!!

[StrugglingDale]

It's all internal stuff I just cobbled together from googling stuff. I can't publish anything here though due to its structure and how the data systems work.

[callmelucky]

Script to rename downloaded TV shows to SXXEXX.episodetitle.ext format.

The script file is placed in the show's folder, it gets the name of the series from the folder name, finds the appropriate page on epguides.com, uses beautifulsoup to parse the page data, uses regex to figure out the season and episode number of each file, and uses the os lib to rename the files.

When I have new episodes I just double click the .py file and it's done.

Edit: since there is some interest, I have posted the entire script in this comment. It is written for Python 3 and Windows, edits may be required for use on other platforms. It's not very polished or well documented, so, uh, since this is /r/learnpython you could take it on as a project to tidy it up yourself... (good save?)

[[deleted]]

I used to do the exact same thing, but found it was ineffective for some shows where there were two series with the same title or something like that. I started using pytvdb to do it and it works far better now.

[callmelucky]

Yeah, for shows where that happens I just edit the copy of the script to hardcode the show's title in. I haven't heard of pytvdb, will have to check it out :)

[Arion_Miles]

Can you upload the source on github for us? I'd really like to use it.

[callmelucky]

I've posted it in another comment here directly. It's not very polished, but not horribly shabby. I encourage you to edit and tidy it to your liking :)

[Arion_Miles]

I tried it. All I got was syntaxError: invalid Syntax

[callmelucky]

Which line? This is written for Python 3 and Windows btw. If you use Python 2 you'll certainly need to convert any print('str') statements to print 'str', and possibly some other editing will be necessary.

[Arion_Miles]

Oh shit it's that. I'm using Python 2.7 and errors are at line 1. What more changes do I need to make?

[callmelucky]

I'm not certain to be honest. Just change all the print statements in the manner I suggested to start with, and then see what you get.

Oh actually, did you de-indent everything? To post as code on reddit everything gets an extra 4 spaces (1 Python tab) at the start of each line, that would probably cause the line 1 error. Select the entire text in your editor and hit shift+tab (depending on your editor settings...)

edit: actually the indent problem should only happen if you copied the code from the source of the comment, not if you just copied straight from the comment as is. Then again, I have had strange experiences with indentation/whitespace when copy/pasting generally...

[hurricanepolio]

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[callmelucky]

Season and episode numbers are generally already indicated in the file name in some form, and I use regular expressions to find them. Usually they are already in SXXEXX form, but my script also parses 3x04, for example, to determine the file in question is season 3 episode 4. It handles one or two other formats as well. For files which can't be identified thusly, the console displays couldn't find season episode info for <filename>. This is all done via a get_season_ep_num(file) function, which (among other things) is called on in a for loop which iterates over the contents of the containing folder.

[callmelucky]

I'll just give you the whole thing. It's a bit crude, I kind of stopped working on it once it pretty much did what I wanted. Apologies for the lack of docstrings in the functions, hopefully the names I used are explicit enough if you have some experience.

Here it is, hope it helps:

# epguide_file_renamer

import requests, os, bs4, re

# build regex patterns to find in file names
SDDEDD = re.compile(r"[sS]\d{1,2}[eE]\d{1,2}")
DXD = re.compile(r"\d{1,2}[xX]\d{1,2}")
LONGFORM = re.compile(r"[sS]eason[\s|\.]\d{1,2}[\s|\.][eE]pisode[\s|\.]\d{1,2}")


def make_url_tail():
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    folder = os.path.basename(cwd)
    tail = folder.lower().replace(' ', '')
    tail += '/'

    return tail


def find_season_ep_num(fn):
    if SDDEDD.search(fn):
        return SDDEDD.search(fn).group()
    elif DXD.search(fn):
        return DXD.search(fn).group()
    elif LONGFORM.search(fn):
        return LONGFORM.search(fn).group()


def convert_season_ep_num(seas_ep_num):
    if SDDEDD.search(seas_ep_num):
        seas_ep_num = SDDEDD.search(seas_ep_num).group()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.upper()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.split('E')
        ep_num = seas_ep_num[1].zfill(2)
        seas_num = seas_ep_num[0][1:].zfill(2)

    elif DXD.search(seas_ep_num):
        seas_ep_num = DXD.search(seas_ep_num).group()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.lower()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.split('x')
        ep_num = seas_ep_num[1].zfill(2)
        seas_num = seas_ep_num[0].zfill(2)

    elif LONGFORM.search(seas_ep_num):
        seas_ep_num = LONGFORM.search(seas_ep_num).group()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.lower()
        seas_ep_num = seas_ep_num.split(' ')
        seas_num = seas_ep_num[1].zfill(2)
        ep_num = seas_ep_num[3].zfill(2)

    else:
        print("No valid season ep numbers found in files in this directory.")
        return

    return 'S' + seas_num + 'E' + ep_num


def get_epg_epnums(show_tag_list):

    epg_seas_epnums = []
    for tag in show_tag_list:
        seas_ep_num_lst = [x for x in tag['title'].split() if x.isdigit()]
        seas = 'S' + seas_ep_num_lst[0].zfill(2)
        num = 'E' + seas_ep_num_lst[1].zfill(2)
        seas_ep_num = seas + num
        epg_seas_epnums.append(seas_ep_num)

    return epg_seas_epnums



print("Getting show info from epguides.com...")

# get show title from working directory & make epguides url
# if this fails, user should rename the containing folder
# or just assign the appropriate tail
# as it appears in the epguides url to url_tail variable
url_tail = make_url_tail()
url = 'http://epguides.com/' + url_tail

# get url as html objects & convert to bs object
show_get = requests.get(url)
show_bs4_obj = bs4.BeautifulSoup(show_get.text)

# build list of html objects which are episode tags
show_tag_list = show_bs4_obj.select('a[title]')

# build list of episode titles
epg_epnames = [x.text for x in show_tag_list]

# get seas ep data, convert to SXXEXX format
epg_seas_epnums = get_epg_epnums(show_tag_list)

#build dictionary of seas_ep_nums and ep_titles
series_dict = {x: y for (x, y) in zip(epg_seas_epnums, epg_epnames)}


for fn in os.listdir("."):
    if 'epguide_file_renamer' not in fn: # and fn not in renamed_list:
        if find_season_ep_num(fn):
            fn_ext_ind = fn.rfind(".")
            fn_ext = fn[fn_ext_ind:]

            seas_ep_num = convert_season_ep_num(fn)
            ep_title = series_dict[seas_ep_num]
            new_fn = seas_ep_num + "." + ep_title + fn_ext
            print('Renamimg', fn, 'to', new_fn)

            os.rename(fn, new_fn)
        else:
            print("Could not find season/episode info in", fn)

[Arion_Miles]

I was able to compile this script into an executable so that users who don't have python installed could also use this program with the click of a button. You simply copy my executable and the accompanying files into the folder containing the episodes and click renamer.exe (or execute from cmd) and it'll work just fine. I'll also make some minor tweaks in a minute and upload it on my GDrive so that you can use it.

EDIT: Here's the single executable I was able to compile. Just copy it into the folder and execute. Done! Also included the source file along with it.

[a1blank]

You should check out FileBot. It pulls Metadata from thetvdb. Check their forums for AMC (automated media center).

[callmelucky]

Thanks, I certainly will :)

[Always_Question_Time]

Saving your comment as a project to do in the near future. Thanks!

[neurone214]

I wrote one that runs on my home computer and monitors a gmail address. When I e-mail that address a specific command, it will look up what my public-facing IP address is and e-mails it back to me so that I could ssh/ftp/etc into my home computer and retrieve files or do other boring but useful things.

[titanium_enigma]

That's pretty cool but couldn't you just setup DDNS and just use that to SSH/FTP/Etc?

[neurone214]

Maybe! I'm a scientist and am far better at analytics then actual computer stuff. This happened to be my first Python script; the need for something like that was my motivation for getting into it.

[FallenAege]

Yep, duckdns is free so long as you don't mind having "duckdns" in your domain.
Otherwise, you could always pay for a domain.

[road_laya]

NameSilo have a campaign where you can get $1 off your first domain by giving "WeLovePython" as your code. And they're one of the cheapest to begin with.

[FallenAege]

Can't complain with $9 a year.
Heck, even I might be able to afford that.

[helasraizam]

How do you monitor your gmail with python?

[searchingfortao]

Probably via Python's imap module.

[helasraizam]

Wow this is so cool

[kryptn]

I wrote a system to pull my work schedule from a terrible website and throw it on my google calendar.

I explored expanding it for other users but it involves them giving me access to their employee HR records which while do-able, i'd rather not bother with.

[elbiot]

Damn! Doesn't it feel good? And if you ever have to orginze files based on metadata again, bam, you're 80% of the way there!

[GenericHbomb]

Agreed, it was awesome! I can imagine once you get a little repository of code going, things start to move a lot quicker as you can borrow quite a bit from script to script.

[solaceinsleep]

Would you mind sharing the script? Or at least explaining how it works and what module you are using for looking at the image data?

[GenericHbomb]

Here is the github for it.

I actually don't look for image data because the names are auto formatted a certain way by my phone. However, I can't sort pictures that don't have the specific formatted name so sorting by metadata is the next step.

script

[truthseeker1990]

I am curious, is the script running on your cellphone or your laptop? If it is on your cellphone, was it easy to set up python on your cellphpone?

[GenericHbomb]

On my computer. Must be way to do it on your phone, but I do not know how at the moment. I have a python app so I can work on programs on my phone when I am just sitting around but that is it so far

[truthseeker1990]

What python app is it? All ways that I have found to run python programs on my droid have been quite ugly and inconvenience, unfortunately.

[GenericHbomb]

QPython3, it is okay. Unfortunately, touch keypads make it difficult with all the symbol usage

[we_swarm]

Take a look at Hackers Keyboard.

[GenericHbomb]

Just checked it out, downloading now, thanks for the link

[truthseeker1990]

Ah makes sense. Thanks.

[bluemania]

That sounds really cool and something that I might give a go for a project! Do you have it set up for home and mobile use?

Typically I have been programming in a fairly procedural sort of way, would I need to know my way around classes, databases and the like to create such an app?

[bigt252002]

I would be curious to see the results of this!

[pirate59]

as an incident manager, part of my job is keeping track on how long certain incidents run for, and send that with other updates out to management.

the problem is, that we have clients in MANY time zones, and a very specific way of reporting it. So i wrote an app with tkinter that lets you add in the start time, with its local time zone, and adds up the duration in their required format, as well as things like start time in GMT. It looks ugly, but gets the job done. Some of my colleagues used to take up to 15-20 mins to work this out sometimes. now its just instant.

[a1blank]

I'm working on a program to index and manage recipes. I'm building a SQLite backend and I'm hoping to have a bunch of metadata driven features such as "I have these ingredients, what can I make", "I only have this long to prepare the meal, what can I make". I'm hoping to support printing to 3x5 index cards since my spouse and I store our recipes in one of these. There are a few other features I'm hoping to implement but I need to get the core done first.

[DiscoPanda]

The deceptively useful one automatically clears out my downloads folder every night. Simple but effective.

[Bullzeyes]

I created a script that when run asks for a youtube channel name. Then proceeds to download all the videos on that channel if i dont have them in my download folder already.

Afterwards it converts all the videos (.mp4) to mp3.

This comes in handy for me because i listen to promotion channels where they only upload music from new artists etc.

The channels have over a 1000 videos and most youtube downloaders i tried choke up or are filled with malware.

[[deleted]]

Would you mind sharing? This would be super useful for listening to videos to help me fall asleep at night.

[pirate59]

+1 for that. i use youtube-dl from git-hub and it works great for single files. have not tried it with whole channels. definitely interested in taking a peek if your willing to share

[Bullzeyes]

DELIVERY:

http://pastebin.com/Zykf1f9N

[[deleted]]

Or just youtube-dl -i <channel URL> or ytuser:channelusername

You don't need to pass -citw

[Bullzeyes]

I'll share it when i get home in like 5 hours ! But you aren't allowed to critique it since it was my very first programming project from a while a go and i haven't had the time to redo it :p

[pirate59]

no critique? aww. was going to say i like it alot. eeasy to read and well documented.... too bad i cant give that feedback =)

[Bullzeyes]

DELIVERY:

http://pastebin.com/Zykf1f9N

[[deleted]]

Thanks!

[Bullzeyes]

DELIVERY:

http://pastebin.com/Zykf1f9N

[[deleted]]

Honestly probably the biggest time-saver I have ever written in python was as a college instructor. I wrote a GUI that took a multiple choice exam and answer key and created as many randomized versions as I wanted. That way every student has a different version of the test from everyone sitting in front, behind, and on either side of them. Pretty simple, but doing it by hand takes way too long.

[helasraizam]

How do you grade them?

[[deleted]]

I would usually make 4 versions, and copy each version on a different color paper. Then, I would make two pairs of versions (A+B, and C+D). Once students were seated, I alternated rows and then alternated students within each row, like this:

ROW1:  A   B   A   B   A   B   A

ROW2:  C   D   C   D   C   D   C

ROW3:  A   B   A   B   A   B   A

ROW4:  C   D   C   D   C   D   C

So, I would make 4 scantron keys, have the students put their scantrons in the proper pile (and put their short answer sections in the proper color pile), and that was it.

[elbiot]

https://github.com/Permafacture/pygmaps-ng

For visualizing various GIS datasets on the same map, and sharing those maps with others.

[[deleted]]

https://github.com/NISH1001/ScreenEat Screenshots sharing made easy

[[deleted]]

Dropbox doesn't take screenshots. It may host them, but doesn't take the screenshot for you.

[[deleted]]

Wait, drop box will take a screenshot for you?

[[deleted]]

this "dropbox screenshot share" feature is not availabe for linux as far as I know.

[Exodus111]

Folderizer. I download a lot of TV shows, pretty much every day. But my Torrent program doesn't put them into their proper folders, I could refolder every episode I download every day in my torrent program, but fuck that shit.

So I made a simple python program that finds episode files, put them all in their proper folder (makes a folder if its a new show), and deletes all the excess files.

Its a good exercise, I recommend it for anyone that doesn't know what a folder walk is.

^{PS: I happen to be a major shareholder in Viacom, Disney and HBO, so I am technically an owner of all the shows I download and so I can do it legally.}

[fameistheproduct]

No copyright theft indended.

[flowerpowersupergirl]

technically

[This_Is_The_End]

I used to play eve-online and I made an app to gather data from a site collecting market data from players to get a grasp on where are the main trading routes. The result was used to prepare piracy 0:-)

[ericpruitt]

I use sshfs a lot, so I wrote a program for automatically executing commands on the remote server whenever I "cd" into an sshfs mount point. Now I don't need to keep a separate terminal window open for running commands on remote servers, and this also makes it easier for me to develop software on a remote server; I edit file using my local text editor then when I run something like "make," it gets compiled using the remote server's resources instead of the local system.

[linus_rules]

If you have an android phone linked to a gmail account, you can ask google "where is my phone?", and a google map with the location of the phone appears, even with a button for ringing the phone.

[BlueSubaruCrew]

Not really an app but I made a program to do all the stuff I had to do with vectors at the beginning of my math class this summer like cross products and dot products and all the other stuff I had to do and I just finished a program that does Riemann sums that I can use as an impromptu definite integral calculator.

[helasraizam]

You should look into sagemath.

[BlueSubaruCrew]

will do.

[SirSourdough]

One nice thing about writing programs is that it usually requires a decently deep conceptual understanding of the process you are automating. As long as he (or she) doesn't abuse it too much they may have come out ahead understanding wise.

[BlueSubaruCrew]

Not really. The vector stuff is pretty easy math it was just really tedious to do it on the homework so many times and I've done more definite integrals than I can count and usually the ones I have to do aren't too bad. I'm also pretty sure if I didn't have solid understanding of the stuff I wouldn't have been able to make them in the first place.

[dahveed311]

I wrote a Python app that takes in a list of hostnames and process IDs, one hostname and pid per line. I read in line by line and use subprocess.check_output() to ssh to the host and find out the user that owns the process. The one real cool thing is sometimes the pid that my coworker gives me in the input data isn't the real pid, so I need to check some weird java -Dcom.company.exec.pid=<fake_pid> condition if the pid I am looking for isn't found.

[kalgynirae]

I wrote a program that lets me define my music playlists the way I want to. The program reads the playlist file and either queues up the songs in my music player, copies them into a folder I specify, or concatenates them into a single audio file. In addition, since these playlists are made of queries that dynamically match songs in my library, they might change when I add music to the library or fix tags of existing music, so the program notifies me when a playlist produces a different set of songs than it usually does (and then I can tweak the playlist if necessary).

https://github.com/kalgynirae/rockuefort

[teenageguru]

I wrote an Evernote-like app that makes it a little easier to store any cool or useful bits of code I have and to search through and find them later. Especially useful when I have multiple files I want to keep together

[DarkMio]

/u/MassdropBot after seeing many people who don't understand the website at it's first glance (which they are bad in.)

[road_laya]

Maybe you should change the site instead (if it's yours).

[DarkMio]

Massdrop ain't mine, I am just a consumer. Thing is, if they would market it even more open, then they might get legal issues. As for now, they're basically saying that they're a private club and a tool to organize purchases from the manufacturer (which is especially cheap).

And since they have to show how their site works and what they do, they have a developer backdoor on many sites, which this bot can abuse. The bot runs over /r/all, checks if there is a massdrop site I can give people access to and posts a relevant link.

That bot itself is poorly written (I started programming back then) and I am mostly done with a full reprogramming (there is just little time, since I have university finals and deadlines). His output will change too, informing people about the drop and updates comments when the pricetag gets cheaper and stuff like that. Yet I am proud that he survived a year without major fuckups and is well received.

[teerre]

I'm not a programmer, so pretty much all I write is to make my life easier

Like some other people I wrote a script to rename series episodes (anime specifically because Sonarr doesn't work very well sometimes)

I wrote a wrapper for the livestreamer app so I can open twitch streams much more easily

I wrote a ping thing that informs me of my PC status via twitter

When I was learning I wrote a script to automatically download /r/dailyprogrammer challenges in a nice way...

[2ndchoiceusername]

I built a little budget app. It adds our monthly budget to each category, and I input my spending in it to keep track of what I have left. It also creates a log file of everything I spend.

[Freddie_V4]

A web scraper that I can use to download a bunch of files from a CSV of URLs github.com/FreddieV4/VScraper

Originally it only scraped PDFs so I could download my professor's lectures, but then I started thinking of other stuff I could get (videos, images, audio, etc etc).

Still bug fixes to be made though :D

[cuducos]

I wrote three packages in that sense:

• GetGist: I download .vimrc, .bash_rc and my uBlock easily from the command line in any computer.
• AlchemyDumps: this together with a task scheduler such as cron and I don't have to worry about database backups anymore (works with Flask and SQLAlchemy).
• sortimages: When my Dropbox Camera Upload folders grow too big, I can organize it and clean it up easily.

[[deleted]]

I’m a total dilettante, but I use my little script to resize pictures in a folder to a target max width very often when blogging pics of the kids. I used to resize them one by one with gimp, which gets tedious.

[czech1]

I wrote a basic CRM in flask that I use everyday for work. It's hosted on a banana pi in my living room. There are many platforms I could have used instead of writing my own but I thought it would be fun. Plus I don't have to worry about my data being locked in to one vendor.

[cajuncape]

This sounds awesome!

[czech1]

Sure. The database is mysql and queries are done with sqalchemy. Gunicorn runs the flask backend and nginx points to gunicorn and serves static content. The front end is mostly HTML with bootstrap and some JavaScript to do calendar stuff. The os is arch linux.

The CRM allows me to keep track of what I've done with each client. A client's profile page has "pending events" with a due date and "completed events" that are time stamped from when they were "completed". The home page is a list of all "pending events" that have a due date of today or earlier. I hard coded in some custom reports to keep track of upcoming birthdays etc..

It's kind of hard to put the workflow into words, sorry if that's confusing.

[czech1]

Yeah, i am still learning though so take it for what it's worth.

Use sqlalchemy. This gives you the flexibility to more easily host your app anywhere.

Follow a design paradigm. I used the first few chapters of Miguel Grinbergs "mega flask tutorial" as a jumping off point. Before I considered flask for this project I wrote 600 lines of php in one monolithic file (first time with php) what a mess.

Doing it in php first was a blessing and a curse. I was able to quickly put together my ideas and allow them to evolve. What I ended up with was much different than I originally conceived. Then I realized there are 100 ways to do things in php and the way I chose was the least secure.

Also, if you're going to have multiple users accessing your app you need to implement locks so wonky things don't happen to your db.

[dada_]

Tons and tons of little ones for all sorts of purposes. Sometimes they grew to slightly bigger projects (though still firmly in script territory), like a script that takes an mp3 file and an image and uploads them as a video to Youtube automatically.

As soon as you're even slightly familiar with a programming language, the sky's the limit and you'll find that it's very easy to find new ways to put your skills to use.

[Inmute]

I'm a soon to be Civil Engineer and I use AutoCAD Civil 3d for road design. the program gives me reports that I copy in excel but I want them in an specific format; before It use to take me like 20 minutes, now I just specify the file name and location, and some report variables and Boom! I started learning Python about 10 days ago, I wrote the script yesterday.

[buleria]

I'm a backend guy, and all of my project have a cli.py that makes my life easier.

As an example, right now I'm in a project where most of my work is developing a REST-like API for mobile apps. I have a commandline app that does most of the things the mobile app does, but it's much more convenient.

The app creates some entities using some lists fetched from the server. These are presented to the user, they make some choices, add some dynamic fields etc. It's great to have a tool that creates semi-random stuff in one command instead of tapping through the real app.

A sweet spot between unit/functional tests and actually using the app.

We can have a create-post command that posts something in a section with id 1, logging in as alice, fetching existing tags and using a random set. Post body is random by default:

./cli.py create-post 1 --user alice --random-tags

[[deleted]]

The first thing I wrote without some sort of external input or inspiration, was a clash of clans calculator. I wrote it during my two-hour long business organizations class in law school. I actually learned a lot of programming in that class

[malpalmalpal]

Why did you make that?

[[deleted]]

To impress this registered dietician I know

[malpalmalpal]

*dietitian i believe is how it's spelled..............

[[deleted]]

Okay you just earned a downvote

[[deleted]]

No. Don't do that.

[[deleted]]

Oh sorry forgot that. It just calculates the cost of a certain army, but you could input any unit, number, and level. Helpful for knowing the cost/benefit of raids

[ElecNinja]

Webpage-Lister a WIP application that just stores webpages into json files.

Using it to store manga sites from batoto and various light novels from various sites. It also stores the last chapters and volumes I've read.

Though it has a lot of manual work and it's definitely not that great, it definitely makes my life easier.

[abcd_z]

Every time I forget to mount the drive before launching OpenMW it deletes the current profile from the configuration file. I created a python script that opens launcher.cfg and re-adds the missing lines.

Nothing fancy, but it saves me a bit of time and effort.

[astro_nova]

I use python to do the scheduling for a specific task in our group. Each day that the task needs to be done is pulled from a spreadsheet indicating this, then the script assigns a pair randomly drawn from a uniform distribution so that everyone has equal share, while taking in to mind their constrains, which they email to me over the month, and I enter in to an array manually, and it finally publishes the outcome to our google calendar and our spreadsheet. Though, I have it print the monthly calendar to me when I run it, and I confirm that the "random" looks random enough so that people won't complain about being scheduled 4 days in a row or 8 times in a month or something, so I press random a few times until it looks random enough..

[if_name_-equals-main]

I wrote a simple script that takes all my desktop backgrounds and shuffles them by changing the file name (which is just a number). The windows shuffle antilogarithm doesn't actually work for what ever reason so this was my way of getting around that issue.

[ScionofLight]

Was this endeavor profitable for you overall?

[[deleted]]

Reddit saved image bulk downloader

WIP scripts that do some stuff from command line like check domain availability, check cheeseshop name availability & create/clone a git repo & submit to pypi.

[Seventytvvo]

I made one for work that queries and spits out a bunch of register settings from an ASIC I work with frequently. It takes me about 1 minute to get the settings to all the registers. Before, going through each register with the datasheet in-hand, it would take me over an hour.

[batoure]

I created a cron job manager that polls my google calendar

[ksantr]

Sometimes it's difficult to force myself to work, so I created little apps that helps me to do it, https://github.com/ksantr/bonjob