what kind of work do you do

[Jim Richardson]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:10:55 +0100, 
 Grant Griffin, in the persona of <g2 at seebelow.org>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>sp00fD wrote:
>> 
>> I was just wondering, of the people here that use Python at work, what
>> kind of programming are you doing and what company?
>
>I use it for:
>
>1) various text processing and off-line data transformations.
>2) web-related tasks (HTML extraction and generation; log file
>processing)
>3) newsgroup capture.  (When Deja bagged on providing its older
>archives, I wrote a Python module--which I hope to share once it
>matures--that captures the entire text of a newsgroup).
>4) I hope to one day embed it in my DSP software tools to provide a
>programatic interface to the data they now create via their GUIs.
>
>that's-a-pretty-diverse-list:-evidently-python-is-a-pretty-handy
>   -thing-<wink>-ly y'rs,
>
>=g2
>-- 

I use it (poorly perhaps:) for simulating hardware at the other end of
a serial port, and for testing said hardware being simulated from the  other
end. You could say that I use Python, coming and going  :P

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Jim Richardson
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