On 11/01/2021 20:37, DonK wrote:
Hi, I'm thinking about learning Python but I'm 74 years old and will
very likely not ever have a programming job again.
At 83, I have no intention of having a programming job again! I last
coded something professionally 45 years ago, but it hasn't lost its
attraction.
So, what do you folks use Python for?
I have several scripts to help with activities for the charity that
keeps me occupied. I've written a shopping list script with
auto-completion and a couple of web-scraping applications that support a
weather reporting application interfacing with various 1Wire sensors
transcribed from an initial Ruby application. My largest GUI application
is a database of personal contacts with input and output of data via
vCards and .csv files (with a lot of mentoring from an American Gtk user!)
I find this a fascinating news group - shame there's been no updates to
Friday Finking recently!
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