Is related to the Python Programming language in some way
I was reading Hynek Schlawack’s excellent article on becoming a Python core developer and decided to find out just how hard it would be to get set up on my machine so that I could be ready to do core development myself, should I ever get the honor of being a part of the team. […]
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The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of course, I wanted to do it all with Python, so after a little looking, I came across 3 candidates: python-qrcode on github pyqrcode on sourceforge and pyqrnative on Google
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I recently bought Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers by Mark Roseman from Amazon and just finished it yesterday. I think it’s pretty new, but I can’t find the release date for it now. Anyway, let’s get on with the review! Quick Review Why I picked it up: I bought this book because I’d been
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After reviewing a couple ebooks last week, I’ve been getting asked to write reviews for several other authors. I even got an offer to write Python book reviews for another website too! Crazy. Anyway, Frederic Lepied contacted me today to review his eBook, which is available on Amazon. He sent it to me as an
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An appropriate alternate title would be: How to control a web page or test your website with Python. Recently, I was given the following assignment: 1) Login to a website 2) click on a toolbar and load a specific search form 3) enter some data into one of the fields on the form and search
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I keep seeing people asking about how to add or remove widgets after they’ve already started their wxPython application. This is actually something that’s really easy to do, so I decided it was time to write a simple tutorial on the subject. I have had to do this myself from time to time depending on
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I bought Matt Harrison’s book, Guide To: Learning Python Decorators this week to see if I could finally understand what the big deal was about decorators. I’ve decided to try reviewing this book using Doug Hellman’s method of doing a Quick Review and then a more formal in depth review for those of you hardy
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Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I’ve been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. Sadly, it took me a month to get around to reading it.
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I got a new job recently which requires me to move across several states, so I have decided to sell a few of the Python programming books I’ve bought the last few years. For some reason, eBay’s search is broken at the time of this writing, so I’ll just list what I’m selling here with
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Menus are ubiquitous. They’re in almost all desktop programs. You use them for editing preferences or configuring your program. In wxPython, there are several menu options to choose from. The most familiar is probably wx.Menu. But there are are popup menus and a pure Python implementation known as FlatMenu. We will just be covering wx.Menu
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I was recently asked to convert a few hundred images into PDF pages. A friend of mine draws comics and my brother wanted to be able to read them on a tablet. Alas, if you had a bunch of files named something like this: ‘Jia_01.Jpg’, ‘Jia_02.Jpg’, ‘Jia_09.Jpg’, ‘Jia_10.Jpg’, ‘Jia_11.Jpg’, ‘Jia_101.Jpg’ the Android tablet would reorder
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Last Thursday (the 5th) I attended Pyowa, the local Iowa Python Users group I founded a few years ago. We had Scott Peterson from Principal Financial Group come and talk to us about Library Gadget, a cool Django-based website he created to track what library books his family has checked out. Now he has lots
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Everyone likes retrospective articles. I’m not sure why, but lists just pull people in. Last year, my top ten list was pretty popular, so this year I’m going to do it again. This year I hit 247,901 visits and 345,452 page views over the course of the year compared with 137,727 visits and 213,814 page
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I was reading the Python blog feed yesterday and stumbled on Tarek Ziade’s Python Meme article. I thought it sounded like a fun idea, so here’s my answers to his questions.
New Year’s Python Meme – #2012pythonmeme Read More »
Have you ever wondered how to create those little status icons in the Windows System Tray that usually appear on the lower right of your screen? The wxPython toolkit provides a pretty simple way to do just that and this article will walk you through the process.
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