Andy Chase

I love Python, because it lets me add 15 fields to a MySQL database in about 5 minutes, which is a lot less time than it would have taken to add them manually via the command-line client or PhpMyAdmin:

#!/usr/bin/python
#altertable.py

for i in range(1,6):
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_title` VARCHAR(255);" % i;
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_url` VARCHAR(255);" % i;
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_caption` TEXT;" % i;

Save as `altertable.py` and run it from the shell:

`python altertable.py | mysql -u andy -pmyPassw0rd -h localhost mydatabase`

Not that it would have taken much longer to write in PHP, Perl, or even Java, but it's so *clean* in Python.