On Jul 31, 8:32 pm, fprintf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I don't have a specific problem to solve, besides > Pythonchallenge (which I found very cryptic), and Project Euler (which > I found beyond my mathematics skills), is there a place to go for > increasingly difficult problems to solve? I have followed a number of > the recommended online tutorials that contain a logical progression of > problems and yet they all end at the point where a person has enough > knowledge of the syntax, but not really enough to do anything.
Just today I saw this recipe on the cookbook, "TV-Series Current Episode Info": http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572193/ As you see, there are plenty of useful things you can do with a programming language ;) Another trivial example: I am keeping an electronic journal as a Python script which checks today's date, create a file with that date (if it does not exist already) and open it with Emacs. That's all. I can search the journal with grep. Since I write the journal in rst format I can publish it on the Web in HTML or print it in PDF. It takes 20 minutes to write a script like that, and it working better for my needs than any commercial application could. The biggest feature is the absence of features: less is more. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
