what are you using python language for?

[Tim Chase]

>  4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic
>     strips I like every day and putting them on a local web
>     page so I can read them all in one place

I wonder how many other folks have done this too.  It was my 
first pet Python project, converting a Java rendition of the same 
app into Python.  Shorter, clearer, faster, better...

Mine uses my older Java config file (which, while tinkering with 
Java's XML libraries, ended up being XML), supports 
Referrer/Referer spoofing, searches pages for regexps so that I 
can find image URLs that have been munged with random numbers 
(like dilbert.com does).  It then builds a local HTML file that 
points at all the locally-saved images.

I wonder what other sorts of features folks have added in their 
comic-snatchers...

I tried a multi-threaded version in Java, but had problems with 
it saturating my dialup connection, and returning some sort of 
errors (perhaps in violation of HTTP's suggestion that one only 
have, IIRC, 2 connections to a server at a given time).  I might 
try it again with Python.  I saw some function-call fly by 
recently that looked like it took a function reference and an 
array of parameter-arrays, and spawned a thread for each 
function.  I foolishly deleted that message, but it shouldn't be 
too hard to scare up again.  I think it involved importing 
something from the future.  A nice little status-GUI would be a 
nice addition, but I'm too lazy to go that far, leaving it with 
just a TUI.  Might be a good way to learn Python GUI programming...

-tkc