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AO8 / syllable_counter.py

Last active January 10, 2019 18:26

Use Python 3, NLTK, and the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary to count the syllables in an English word or phrase.

	# NLTK is a suite of libraries for working with human language data: http://www.nltk.org
	# NLTK allows us to access the Carnegie Mellon University Prounouncing Dictionary (cmudict)
	# cmudict is a corpus that contains almost 125,000 words mapped to their pronunciations.
	# This tiny app was inspired by Lee Vaughn's Impractical Python Projects

	import sys
	from string import punctuation
	from nltk.corpus import cmudict

	# load corpus and build dictionary

AO8 / journal.py

Last active January 11, 2019 22:27

More File I/O practice: a simple MyJournal app with Python 3, taken from Michael Kennedy's Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps course.

	import os

	def load(name):
	"""
	This method creates and loads a new journal.
	:param name: This base name of the journal to load.
	:return: A new journal data structure populated with file data.
	"""
	data = []
	filename = get_full_pathname(name)

AO8 / deque.py

Last active December 18, 2018 17:19

Deque practice with Python 3.

	# Exercise completed as part of Erin Allard's Lynda.com course,
	# 'Python Data Structures: Stacks, Queues, and Deques'

	class Deque:
	"""An ADT that resembles both a Stack (LIFO) and a Queue (FIFO).
	Items in a deque can be added to and removed from both the back
	and front.

	Don't reinvent the wheel. More simply, from collections import deque
	https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.deque

AO8 / queue.py

Created December 18, 2018 16:53

Queue practice with Python 3.

	# Exercise completed as part of Erin Allard's Lynda.com course,
	# 'Python Data Structures: Stacks, Queues, and Deques'

	class Queue:
	"""An ADT that stores items in the order in which they
	were added. Items are added to the back and removed
	from the front - FIFO.
	"""
	def __init__(self):
	self.items = []

AO8 / stack.py

Last active December 18, 2018 16:37

Stack practice with Python 3.

	# Exercise completed as part of Erin Allard's Lynda.com course,
	# 'Python Data Structures: Stacks, Queues, and Deques'

	class Stack:
	"""An ADT that stores items in the order in which they were
	added. Items are added to and removed from the top of the
	stack - LIFO.
	"""
	def __init__(self):
	self.items = []

AO8 / get_weather.py

Last active December 14, 2018 21:57

Retrieve temperature and weather conditions with this simple Python weather client using Weather Underground, Requests, and BeautifulSoup.

	# Screen scraping information from Weather Underground at https://www.wunderground.com/ is for
	# example purposes only. Try the Weather Underground API at https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api
	# Project adapted from Michael Kennedy's Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps course

	# Standard Library
	from collections import namedtuple
	# Third Party
	import requests
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

AO8 / send_gmail.py

Created December 6, 2018 23:04

Sending gmail with Python. This version uses the ssl module and SMTP_SSL() from the smtplib module.

	import smtplib
	import ssl
	from email.mime.text import MIMEText

	sender = "[email protected]"
	receiver = "[email protected]"
	password = input("Enter password: ")

	text = """\
	Hi!

AO8 / get_chuck_norris_joke.py

Last active November 29, 2018 20:00

Fetch a random joke from the Internet Chuck Norris Database (ICNDb) with Python 3 and Requests.

	# Learn more about the ICNDb API at: http://www.icndb.com/api/
	# Learn more about the Requests library at: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/

	import requests

	def get_joke():
	"""fetches and prints a random joke"""
	url = "http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random"
	resp = requests.get(url)
	resp.encoding = "utf-8"

AO8 / secret_santa.py

Last active November 20, 2018 22:24

Remove the hassle from making Secret Santa gift giving assignments with Python 3. This short program uses the csv, random, and smtplib modules to read a file, create random assignments, then prepare & send email notifications to each participant.

	# To start, set up a Google form that collects
	# first name, last name, and email address from participants,
	# then export as a CSV file and store it in the same
	# directory as this program
	# also, enable less secure apps in gmail before running
	# https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

	import csv
	import smtplib
	from random import shuffle

AO8 / stopwatch.py

Created October 9, 2018 16:12

Handy Python stopwatch recipe for recording the time it takes to perform a task.

	# Stopwatch recipe taken from Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition, by David Beazley and Brian K. Jones.
	# Page 561: "As a general rule of thumb, the accuracy of timing measurements made with functions
	# such as time.time() or time.clock() varies according to the operation system. In contast,
	# time.perf_counter() always uses the highest-resolution timer available on the system."

	import time

	class Timer:
	def __init__(self, func=time.perf_counter):
	self.elapsed = 0.0

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