Phillip Bowden wrote: > I feel that I've learned the language pretty well, but I'm having > trouble thinking of a medium to large project to start. What are some > projects that you have written in the past with Python?
I'm the maintainer of several python projects. Most of them have their current homepage at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html (soon to move though) My *main* current interest is writing python CGIs - online tools. There are a couple of projects I really want to do, but haven't had the time. If you are interested I could support you in working on these. The first one is an online bookmarks manager. There are various of these around - but none in python and none as straightforward as I would like. It would be easy to get something working and then expand it to do more things (like import bookmarks from IE/mozilla/firefox, check links, organise folders etc). I could give you a section on voidspace - complete with FTP login and python 2.3.4 - if you wanted. An alternative project (not online) is a 'simple version control' program. I've written a set of libraries and a GUI tool that do directory syncing. The libraries are called FSDM and the GUI tool is called DirWatcher. It can snapshot directories and then work out any changes. I use it for keeping directories in sync in the three different computers I use. It would be relatively simple for turning this into a tool that monitored projects for you. You could 'snapshot' a set of folders and label that as version 0.1. You could track changes and allow the rolling back of individual files, or even a whole project to a previous version. Again I could offer you every support (work with you effectively). I would also like to change the data format of saved files from my own text markup to XML. There is a very nice library called XMLobject that will read & write XML - so it should be simple, but I don't have the time. It would make an excellent little version control system for small projects with individual developers. Anyway, whatever you do, good luck. Regards, Fuzzyman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
