wxPython: Get the Event Name Instead of an Integer

There was a recent post on StackOverflow that I thought was interesting. It asked how to get the event name from the event object, such as EVT_BUTTON, rather than the event’s id number. So I did some investigation into the subject and there is nothing builtin to wxPython that does this task. Robin Dunn, creator

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June 2011 Pyowa Wrapup

We had our monthly Pyowa meeting yesterday, Thursday, June 2nd at the IMT Group building in West Des Moines. Refreshments were provided. There was pop and Little Caesar’s pizza. We had two good talks. The first was given by Scott and he spoke on the topics of printing labels to a Dymo label printer using

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PyCon 2011: Sunday Plenaries with Threadless, Disqus and OpenStack

On Sunday, March 13th, the final official PyCon conference day occurred (there were sprint days that followed, of course). Anyway, they had three interesting plenaries to help lead us into that day’s talks. Read on to find out what they were about. The Threadless Plenary Chris McAvoy, VP of Technology at Threadless in Chicago gave

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PyCon 2011: Friday Plenaries (with Hilary Mason)

Introduction with Van The Official Python Conference days started today, Friday, March 11th, 2011. Van Lindberg started things off with an introductory speech. He spent some time thanking donors and explaining how the rooms would be split up. Then he gave out some door prizes, which appeared to be Python programming books. Steve Holden’s Plenary

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