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What bots would you like to see on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by XioR112@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I'm learing python and I was thinking about createing Lemmy bot.

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[–] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GNU units to the rescue! https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...wow.

I just installed it. I was expecting something like "ah, it knows that a cup should be a certain amount of mililitres, but what if I ask it in grams? Then I put "1 cup sugar", "grams"... and it returned 200g. It couldn't find flour so I used butter, 226g. It works!

Checking /usr/share/units/definitions.units, the devs had the insight to add a lot of cooking stuff to it. Also a way to define your own units. The syntax is an arse but I guess that the bot could handle it.

This would be great as the "guts" of a really good conversion bot.