On May 18, 5:20�pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all. Just thought I'd ask a general question for my own interest. Every > time I think of something I might do in Python, it usually involves creating > a GUI interface, so I was wondering what kind of work you all do with Python > that does *not* involve any GUI work. This could be any little scripts you > write for your own benefit, or what you do at work, if you feel like talking > about that! :) > > Thanks.
Odd, I've been using Python since ver 2.2 and I've NEVER needed a GUI. I do things like (looking at the last 6 months of my Python directory): - how to scrape movie receipt data from IMDB and insert them into an MS-Access database - how to scrape .jpgs from a web page (simple file transfer, no display needed) - how to do a Cartesian Product in SQLlite3 - how to creat a polynomial from a sequence of numbers using Newton's Forward Differences method - how to calculate the date of Easter - how to construct arbitrary length cycles in the Collatz Conjecture - how to find the Ultimate Cycle (also in Collatz Conjecture) - efficient cycle detection comparing Brent's and Sedgewick's cycle detection algorithms - finding the cycles of 3n+C systems - partioning W marbles into D ordered bins with the constraint that each bin contain a minimum of 1 - partioning W marbles into D ordered bins with the constraint that each bin contain a minimum of 1 and that no bin exceeds M - a Python Cartesian Product that in addition to Permutaions with Replacement, also gives the subsets Permutations without Replacement, Combinations with Replacement and Combinations without Replacement - demonstrating the fallacy of Peter Scorer's "proof" of the Collatz Conjecture - demonstrating the fallacy of Alan Tyte's "proof" of the Collatz Conjecture - demonstrating the fallacy of Ken Conrow's "proof" of the Collatz Conjecture - how to identify which members of the infinite solutions to a given Sequnce Vector of a 3n+C system are located on the trivial graph component - developing a novel factoring algorithm based on the Collatz Conjecture I see no need for GUI in any of these applications. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
