[python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

[Javier Llopis]

> As an attempt to generate some content and balance out the "jobs"
> discussion....
>
> Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year?
> Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things
> you've been playing with....

I have automated an ill-thought process that used to involve creating an
ad-hoc 1500 line windows batch program to carry out an unattended remote
installation every time my company tried to deploy new content on their
large network of Video Lottery Terminals.

I was hired basically to help develop those silly windows batch programs
which were creating a bottleneck, and by writing step by step a 5000 line
python program that automatically generated the batch programs, the
bottleneck went elsewhere. The whole process is as ill-thought as ever,
but I'm no longer stressed, and they haven't had to replace the members of
the team who left the company, effectively downsizing it from five to two
people.

I have also used Python to do lots of file processing, one time programs.

Cheers

Javier