Yesterday, I stumbled on to Dropbox’s Python API. I ended up using their tutorial to design a simple class for accessing my Dropbox. You’ll need to download their dropbox module to follow along or use “pip install dropbox” to install it. You will also need to sign up for a key and secret. Once you […]
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My wife teaches 3rd grade math and she recently learned about the process of obtaining the digital root of numbers. The digital root is a single digit number found by summing the individual digits. So for 15, you would add 1+5 to get 6. Thus 6 is the digital root of 15. The trainer that
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At my job, we sometimes need to write a PDF to memory instead of disk because we need to merge an overlay on to it. By writing to memory, we can speed up the process since we won’t have the extra step of writing the file to disk and than reading it back into memory
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Today we’re going to learn about one of wxPython’s newer features: wx.lib.softwareupdate. It was actually added a couple of years ago. What this allows you to do is add update abilities to your software. As far as I can tell, this mixin only allows prompted updates, not silent updates. Getting Started It’s built into wxPython
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This topic comes up from time to time every year. Someone will ask about how to make their application full screen or how to just make it maximize when it first loads. So we’ll spend a little time showing you how to do each of these activities.
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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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