On Monday, February 25, 2013 10:15:24 PM UTC-8, Dave Angel wrote: > On 02/25/2013 10:48 PM, eli m wrote: > > > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote: > > >> Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. > >> Thanks. > > > > > > Thank you guys for the suggestions. Any more? > > > > > > > There are all kinds of things you could do. First, consider something > > that might be useful. > > > > 1) checksum all the files in a directory tree, using various checksum > > algorithms. > > > > 2) Convert one kind of file to another. > > > > 3) Calculate time between two dates > > > > 4) Write some part of a backup system. For example, copy files from a > > directory tree into a specified directory, stopping when the size totals > > N.N gig, and keeping track of which files have been so processed, so > > that after burning that directory to DVD, you can repeat the process. > > As a bonus, add a utility & datafile to the top of that directory, so > > that the DVD can be self-checking. > > > > Then try something interesting: > > > > 1) find the nth prime, for example the 1000th prime > > > > 2) Find all perfect numbers under a trillion > > > > 3) solve the puzzles on http://projecteuler.net > > > > 4) Build a spell checker, using a combination of a standard > > dictionary-list and custom entries. Bonus question - Make it smart > > enough to only spell-check comments and literal strings, when applied to > > files with an extension of .py > > > > > > -- > > DaveA
How hard would it be to change one file to another and would it be a small-medium sized program? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
