15 minute presentation on python?

[Chris]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<3C7ADE12.C6D895A0 at engcorp.com>...
> 
> Something text-based that retrieves some useful information
> from the web (a weather site?) and parses the result and
> displays something useful with a few lines of Python code
> using the standard modules would have enough "wow" appeal
> for anyone used to other languages...
> 
> At least, it "wow"ed me when I did this sort of thing
> from the interactive prompt for the first time... :)
> 
> -Peter

I agree--if you have Internet access, do something that grabs
something from a web page.  I also did the above (based on an example
in Learning Python to grab the temp for a city from a weather site)
and it wowed me.

Or, create a simple CGI script and generate a web page.

Good luck,
Chris