On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to > > gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not. > > Well, based on my definition, that's easy to answer. Have you solved > problems using Python? If you have a bunch of HTML pages and you need > to get some info out of all of them by COB today, do you think "I can > do that with Python", or do you think "I can do that with sed, awk, > grep, and five levels of pipe"? The tools you use for an urgent job > will be the ones you know. > > ChrisA
Yeah I have. I needed to get stats from the front page of a website. I wrote a script for that. I plotted the stats using matplotlib. I collected data manually and missed running the script one day so I took care of that problem using Python. Wrote a script that checked for internet connectivity and then ran the scripts that downloaded the stuff I needed and then placed this script in the Windows startup folder. That was a nice feeling. Because I can just customize that startup script if I ever wanted to change my computer's startup behaviour. But that was pure luck that I had done the random example that you had chosen. It would be difficult to find my overall progress by the one thing. I am currently unemployed so the sense of urgency isn't there normally. That's why I asked this question. But I got your point. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
