Yesterday I discussed some thoughts I had about learning Python, especially around some scripting to create notes in Evernote since IFTTT would no longer suit my needs.
Today I explored Python a little more closely, and it doesn’t seem to be that complicated of a new language to learn. Caveat: almost all languages are easy to learn, it’s the libraries and frameworks that can suck the life out of you.
One though that hadn’t occurred to me, even though I hinted at it yesterday, was that I could use Python to create scripts to do things. My thought at the time was to use it on a server (probably in a cron job), but some of the power I wasn’t considering with Python is in creating scripts to run on my local PC to do different things.
Having done some PowerShell scripting in the past, I can see this being very similar, but without being tied to Microsoft’s scripting language. (I’ve put aside my frustrations with Microsoft from years past and wholly support their developer ecosystem, but it’s nice to have choices).