I see people asking about this topic from time to time in various places on the internet. Making wxPython minimize to the tray is really quite simple, but there is at least one thing you need to watch out for. We’ll get to that, but first we need to spend some time looking at some […]
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Some people don’t realize this, but there are a lot of free books about the Python programming language. Yes, some of them aren’t that great, but there’s a lot of really good resources out here that are free. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the free books and other resources you
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The other day, I heard that when we transfer some of our scripts to our batch farm, we cannot transfer sub-folders. So if I have a directory structure like the following, it needs to be flattened: Top –> data –> font –> images Instead of having sub-folders for my fonts, images, etc, I would need
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I sometimes run into situations where it would be nice to have one of my Python scripts communicate with another of my Python scripts. For example, I might want to send a message from a command-line script that runs in the background to my wxPython GUI that’s running on the same machine. I had heard
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I wrote an article on this topic several years ago, but I think it is time for me to revisit it. Why? Well, lately I’ve been doing a lot of work on a program for sending emails and I’ve been looking at my old article and thinking I missed a few things when I first
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If you have followed this blog for a while, you may remember that we’ve covered several XML parsing libraries that are included with Python. In this article, we’ll be continuing that series by taking a quick look at the ElementTree library. You will learn how to create an XML file, edit XML and parse the
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When I was a kid, I was really into secret codes and ciphers. I thought they were all kinds of fun. My mom thought it would be fun to use some of the ciphers I was so enamored with in treasure hunts for special occasions, like birthdays. She would take something like a Cryptograph Wheel
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I recently received my copy of Real Python by Fletcher Heisler and just finished reading it. I got it as a bonus from a recent KickStarter campaign for the sequel to the book, Real Python for Web Development which is actually written by someone else. You can go to the book’s website to purchase the
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The PySide GUI toolkit for Python has several standard dialogs and message boxes that you can use as-is. You can also create custom dialogs, but we’ll be saving that for a future article. In this post, we will cover the following dialogs: Color Dialog File Dialog Font Dialog Input Dialog Print & Print Preview Dialogs
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I had heard about the Python Brochure Project last year but was under the impression that it was for corporations at that time as it seemed that you had to purchase them. It looked really good, but since I wasn’t a corporation and couldn’t buy them in bulk, I didn’t give it too much thought.
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As I learn PyQt and PySide, I am writing some tutorials to help my fellow travelers. Today we’ll be looking at how to connect multiple widgets to the same slot. In other words, we’ll be binding the widgets signals (basically events) to slots (i.e. callables like functions, methods) which are better known as “event handlers”.
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I am currently reading through Mark Summerfield’s book on PyQt, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and thought it would be fun to take some of the example applications in it and convert them to PySide. So I’ll be creating a series of articles where I’ll show the original PyQt examples from the book
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Last week, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his latest Python eBook entitled Treading on Python Vol 2: Intermediate Python. I was intrigued since I rarely get to read Intermediate level Python books. In fact, I would say that some of the stuff that the author talks about goes into the advanced level. Anyway,
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A couple months ago, I was contacted by John Rowland. He is the author of the brand new eBook Learn Python Quickly and he was contacting me about using one of my blog articles as the basis for one of his examples in his book. This one to be exact. Anyway, I told him I
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The Reportlab library is a great way to generate PDFs in Python. Recently, I noticed that it has the ability to do barcodes. I had heard about it being able to generate QR codes, but I hadn’t really dug under the covers to see what else it could do. In this tutorial, we’ll take a
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