Is related to the Python Programming language in some way
Configuration files are used by both users and programmers. They are usually used for storing your applications settings or even your operating system’s settings. Python’s core library includes a module called ConfigParser that you can use for creating and interacting with configuration files. We’ll spend a few minutes learning how it works in this article.
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I do a lot of PDF report creation with Python using Reportlab. Occasionally I’ll throw PyPDF in as well. So I’m always on the lookout for other mature Python PDF tools. PDFDocument isn’t exactly mature, but it’s kind of interesting. The PDFDocument project is actually a wrapper for Reportlab. You can get it on github.
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The other day, I wrote an updated version of my wxPython pubsub article for wxPython 2.9 and realized I had never gotten around to trying PyDispatcher to see how it differed from pubsub. I’m still not sure how it differs internally, but I thought it would be fun to “port” the pubsub code from the
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Earlier this year, Packt Publishing asked me to be a technical reviewer of one of their upcoming books, “Building Machine Learning Systems with Python” by Willi Richert and Luis Pedro Coelho. Now the book is available for purchase and they have asked me to write a little about it. I haven’t read through the finished
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Have you ever wondered how to embed custom fonts in Reportlab? Or maybe you just want to switch fonts or change the font’s color. Well in this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all of these questions. You’ll need to go out and download a copy of Reportlab as it isn’t a part of the
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Today I decided to figure out how to make Python log to a file and the console simultaneously. Most of the time, I just want to log to a file, but occasionally I want to be able to see stuff on the console too to help with debugging. I found this ancient example in the
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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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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
PyPdf: How to Write a PDF to Memory Read More »
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.
wxPython: Making your Frame Maximize or Full Screen Read More »
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 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
Python 102: How to Send an Email Using smtplib + email Read More »
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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