Recently I was trying to figure out how to add tooltips to each item in an ObjectListView widget in wxPython on Windows. The wxPython wiki has an example that uses PyWin32, but I didn’t want to go that route. So I asked on the wxPython Google Group and got an interesting answer. They had actually […]
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Recently I’ve started learning about Kivy, a Python Natural User Interface (NUI) toolkit. As I understand it, Kivy is kind of a spiritual successor to pyMT, which you can read more about here. In this article, we will be learning how Kivy handles layout management. While you can position widgets using x/y coordinates, in every
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Python’s “batteries included” philosophy even includes a module for object serialization. They call it the pickle module. Some people call serialization by other names, such as marshalling or flattening. In Python, it’s known as “pickling”. The pickle module also has an optimized C-based version known as cPickle that can run up to 1000 times faster
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I like to use Wingware’s IDE for coding in Python. I am working through some sample applications with Kivy, a cross-platform Python GUI framework that can also create UIs for mobile. Anyway, getting Kivy set up in Wing is slightly confusing, so here’s a crash course: Download Kivy Unzip Kivy somewhere. In my case, I
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The other day, someone asked me if I could write a script that could cleanup a directory of all files that are greater than or equal to X number of days old. I ended up using Python’s core modules for this task. We will spend some time looking at one way to do this useful
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I was recently asked to review a Python blog, which is something I’ve never really done before. The blog’s name is “Bite Sized Python Tips” and you can find it here: http://freepythontips.wordpress.com/. It is run by a fellow named Yasoob. When I first glanced through the site, I saw a lot of articles that were
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There aren’t very many Tkinter books in existence, which is something I’ve always found a little odd as it is the GUI toolkit that is included with Python. Basically you have Grayson’s Python and Tkinter Programming from 2000 or Roseman’s Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers from 2012. I reviewed the latter here, if you’re
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Packt Publishing recently contacted me about reviewing their new book, Instant Flask Web Development by Ron DuPlain. They sent me an ebook copy and I just finished it up. I always strive to give an honest opinion about the Python books I read as I want my readers to know whether or not a book
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This Contest is now over! Packt Publishing has asked me to run a run a contest for them to give away their new book: Instant Flask Web Development by Ron DuPlain. It has been receiving favorable reviews on Amazon and I plan to release a review of the book soon. I have 3 digital copies
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The wxPython Frame widget is used in almost all wxPython applications. It has the minimize, maximize and close buttons on it as well as the caption along the top that identifies the application. The wx.Frame allows you to modify its styles in such a way that you can remove or disable various buttons and features.
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Today we’ll be looking at how to acquire data from the popular movie site, Rotten Tomatoes. To follow along, you’ll want to sign up for an API key here. When you get your key, make a note of your usage limit, if there is one. You don’t want to do too many calls to their
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Today we will be looking at how to get the selected cells from a wxPython grid object. Most of the time, getting the section is easy, but when the user selects more then one cell, getting the selection becomes more complicated. We will need to create some sample code to show how all this fits
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We all write bad code from time to time. I tend to do it deliberately when I’m experimenting in the interpreter or the debugger. I can’t say why I do it exactly except that it’s fun to see what I can fit in one line of code. Anyway, this week I needed to parse a
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This topic is actually more complicated then it first appears. In this article, we’ll spend a little time looking at this problem and some of the solutions.
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A couple of months ago, Dzone contacted me to partner with them in finishing a Python cheat sheet that another writer had started. About two weeks ago, I found out that the other author was Naomi Ceder. Anyway, after lots of reviewing on DZone’s part, they have finally released the finished product. You can check
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