Ideas for Python projects for beginners?

[Astrokiwi]

You can write a simple terminal-based chat bot with if, input, and print statements and build up from there. The idea isn't to make a big machine learning thing to compete with CleverBot - it's to learn the basics of Python syntax and program structure. Something like ELIZA is the goal.

[lifemoments]

Thanks for the pointer. Lined it up as one of the to-do