<div>Probably the biggest personal project this year has been a library I've been developing for a while, on and off, that generates ebook files in epub format. Also a bunch of utilities for taking the HTML produced by OCR software and turning it into 'semantic' markup using proper headings and lists and things. The lxml library has been my constant friend in these two projects, and has made the whole thing bearable, given that I don't like XML very much.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The most recent 'project' was a script I wrote at the weekend that generates crochet patterns for tori (donuts). I've uploaded a photo of the resultant donut to Flickr[1]. The idea of writing code that results in a real world object appeals to me. Now that I've got the basic logic down, I plan to build a bunch of these scripts for generating geometric shapes in crochet, and then web-enable it on appengine. Crochet CAD, here we come! (Yes, this is a kinda weird project)</div>
<div><br></div><div>On the work side, I changed from a job that was primarily C++ to a job that's primarily Python (or at least half-Python, half-Javascript).</div><div><br></div><div>Next year: I do whatever random thing appeals to me at the time, so apart from plans to extend and open-source the epub library, I'll end up doing whatever inspires me in the new year, and I'll probably be coding it in Python... oh, and given that I have an Android phone and a Lego Mindstorm set, I may well be playing with Cellbots[2].</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bedmondmark/5287166165/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/bedmondmark/5287166165/</a></div><div>[2]: <a href="http://www.cellbots.com/">http://www.cellbots.com/</a></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 December 2010 23:20, Dougal Matthews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dougal85@gmail.com">dougal85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>I read a post on the Python UK mailing list along these lines and found it really interesting. You can view the posts here <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-uk/2010-December/thread.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-uk/2010-December/thread.html</a> with the subject matching this emails. (It's annoyingly hard to link to a thread in mailman - who on earth would use that?)<span></span><span></span></div>
<div><span></span><span></span><br></div><div>So the question is simple, what have you done with Python this year? or what do you want to do with it next year? Worked on anything cool? Learned something new?<span></span></div>
<div><span></span><span></span><br></div><div>I'll let somebody else start this off but I'll add my round up tomorrow.<span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div><div><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><br>
</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dougal</div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div>
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