Title: 30 Days of Python: Days 20-30
Tags: python
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And we're done! I have created 30 python scripts this month (only three of which were too lame to post). It's been a lot of fun, and now I feel much more comfortable with using Python. 

It's amazing how easy python is to work with, really. Some of these tasks I expected to be pretty hard, but there are python modules to help you solve just about any problem. 

Here are the last 11 scripts:

[Day 20][20]: Unpickled the object saved in Day 19.

[Day 21][21]: Created and tested a custom exception.

Day 22: One last lame script, sorry.

[Day 23][23]: Played a bit with the Twitter API.

[Day 24][24]: Parsed a file from the <a href="http://stuff.metafilter.com/infodump/">Metafilter Infodump</a> to see who had the most deleted Ask Metafilter questions.

[Day 25][25]: Created an Metafilter Data Dump parser that loads most of the data into python classes (excluding comment data, favorites data, and contacts data).

[Day 26][26]: Created a script that uses the <a href="http://py-googlemaps.sourceforge.net/">Google Maps API</a> to determine which of several addresses is closest to a given addresses. (I'm hunting for an apartment.) 

[Day 27][27]: Revised Day 25 and converted it into a module for easy use in scripts (like [this one][27a]).

[Day 28][28]: Tried out a really easy to use [python twitter][ptwitter] module.

[Day 29][29]: Used <a href="http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Installation">python-markdown</a> to convert [markdown][md] text into HTML.

[Day 30][30]: Revised 29; now it posts a markdown-encoded text file [like this one][blogtxtfile] to my blog as a draft using xmlrpclib.

Thanks to all the hard-working folks who make python and python modules available for everyone to use for free.

[20]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/20.py
[21]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/21.py
[23]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/23.py
[24]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/24.py
[25]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/25.py
[26]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/26.py
[27]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/MefiInfoDump.py
[27a]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/27a.py
[28]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/28.py
[29]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/29.py
[30]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/30.py
[ptwitter]: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
[md]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[blogtxtfile]: http://www.jdharper.com/downloads/30DaysOfPython/30DaysBlogPost.txt