How a messy potluck list got me into coding

I was helping a friend set up a list for our community potluck, and it was a mess with texts and emails. So I decided to write a simple Python script to organize the responses. It took me forever to figure out how to read from a CSV file, but I got it working. Has anyone else built small tools for common problems? What was your first project?

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skylergrant2mo ago

Guess we all just reinvent Google Docs with extra steps, huh? Your mom's PDFs got sorted but did she ever figure out how to open them after?

sage1962mo ago

Omg yes, I made a script to sort my mom's scanned receipts last year. She had hundreds of PDFs named weird stuff like "scan123". I wrote a Python thing to pull the dates from the text and rename them all. Felt like magic when it finally worked.

paige_wells442mo ago

Totally get why that felt like magic.