Learning Django - Good starter project
If you want to use payment processing you should probably make a store of some sort .
I for one have a kikstarter/rockethub clone project queued in my want-to-do projects list .
But you should try thinking at something that you would use and isn't out there at the moment , something that would solve some needs of yours , that way you kill 2 birds with one stone .
Or try making the old book store webapp but use Facebook/Twitter/Google etc ... API's 
and add html5 functionality to the site ... the possibilities are endless .
I am presently embarking to learn Python and Django together and I have gained a fair bit of theoretical knowledge to help me out.
However, I'm after a good project that I can dig into which will offer me experience in Python, Django, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, and various initiatives such as OpenID and maybe even payment processng such as PayPal.
I'm at a loss as to where to begin. I really want to code something functional, not just "hello world" or "list of book/author/publisher" examples.
Did anybody have a similar situation when learning to code? I would love to hear ideas and past experiences. I suppose this would apply to any language, not just Python/Django. Thanks!