Forum Archive
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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Nov 04, 2022 - 22:01
XenithRai
Trying to learn how to create and manipulate multiple views with Pythonista, but I’ve hit a brick wall. I’ve tried searching through the exa...
Hi newbie here.
I can’t get scrollview to work with the code below. My main sheet loads fine and there is a working vertical scroll bar, bu...
Oct 29, 2022 - 01:08
gojyuan
Hi,
I do all programming on a iPad Pro. Yesterday updated to iPadOS 16.1 and console.input_alerts and custom listdialogs no longer working -...
Oct 27, 2022 - 18:30
RocketBlaster05
Hi, this post is more so for @cvp as it has been a long while since I have been here on these forums. Nonetheless, any input would be apprec...
Oct 25, 2022 - 16:46
Wences
Trying to learn Python using Pythonista whilst commuting to work by following a course that uses another software to code on Python.
One of...
Oct 25, 2022 - 14:52
shinya.ta
I want to make an iPhone-custom keyboard in pythonista.
I'm Japanese. I want to make a custom keyboard for my iPhone that is Japanese compa...
Oct 22, 2022 - 11:46
jackattack
Has anyone ever had any success at getting Pythonista to actually create nice looking latex output. I can generate latex code but I’ve not b...
Oct 21, 2022 - 03:39
XenithRai
I’m currently working on a tic tac toe game and have a lot of the game fleshed out, but two things that have me stumped are the following:
...
Oct 15, 2022 - 17:02
168grani
Good morning to all guys,
I'm quite new to Python and absolutely new to Pythonista.
I'm a volleyball coach and I'm trying to build by myse...
Oct 15, 2022 - 00:51
emily_raye
I am just moving a program that I had previously used on IDLE on Mac to Pythonista and iPad. It pulls files from the directory and reads/wri...
Oct 07, 2022 - 08:26
Vent
I can’t see Autocomplete when using Type Hint.
```
class Foo():
def __init__(self):
self.bar = 'a'
foo = Foo()
foo.# I can get ...
Oct 06, 2022 - 14:30
Massimo_Tito
Some days ago I ave update my device IOS to IOS 16 and my pytonista program do non play the "speach text" and crash after try to play it.
Wh...
Oct 03, 2022 - 01:43
Vent
Is there a way to use the Siri voice from the speech module? I'm Japanese so I got the speech containing ```JP``` with ```speech.get_synthe...
Oct 01, 2022 - 12:19
multitech_news
I'm trying to programmatically set a values to each item in a list inside a nested dictionary.
for example, let's say my initial dictionary...
Sep 30, 2022 - 09:33
a13128041779
I am a new ,could you please tell me how to use the interactive prompt
Sep 29, 2022 - 13:12
Trüff
Hey everyone,
I am currently having some problems with the ui-module in Pythonista.
The following code is a representation of the situatio...
Sep 27, 2022 - 20:47
tedcantrall
I usually use the IDLE ide on a PC. Pythonista was highly recommended for use on an iPad (I’m on vacation now), but I can’t get an 11 line p...
Sep 23, 2022 - 00:28
nickrutkowski
I've been learning python for about 2 weeks. I installed pythonista to try and create a program that takes numbers from the user and does a ...
Sep 21, 2022 - 23:16
ZinoSama
I tried debug this code, and it worked correctly, but after I running this one, the whole app crushed.
```
def start(sender):
def ani_pau...
Sep 21, 2022 - 04:17
ZinoSama
How do I change the button image from 'play' to 'pause'?
Something like press button once, the image change to 'pause', then press it again...
Sep 17, 2022 - 11:09
FuckingNerd
So I am working on something that involves the photo and scene modules. I take a photo from the photoalbum and display it as SpriteNode on t...
Sep 17, 2022 - 11:05
FuckingNerd
I took some advice from a post here and installed the working copy app on my IPAD to start developing with pythonista on my Laptop. It works...
Sep 16, 2022 - 20:30
MRAC
anyone already tested? Thanks
Sep 16, 2022 - 16:30
PeterDaGrape
Hi there, I am completely new to Pythonista UI and all I need to do is show an image generated within PIL, I have found https://forum.omz-so...
Sep 16, 2022 - 09:19
FuckingNerd
I found a way to Dev on a PC with Ubuntu and syncing sources. However, I would like to have autocompletion for classes and objects in my PC ...
Sep 15, 2022 - 11:22
Katakuri2025
I'd love to hear from folks who use Python to automate their daily work duties in the office or for their businesses. What types of automati...
Sep 13, 2022 - 09:57
Shisui2038
I want to share releases while developing sphinx-revealjs (now out v2.0.0). The HTML for the Reveal.js presentation is generated by this Sph...
Sep 12, 2022 - 13:13
rony2012
Exists a mobile coding alternative to Pythonista for iOS and iPad? Unfortunately, Pyto, another excellent programme, has recently experience...
Sep 10, 2022 - 00:27
timjhinton
Hello there,
I’m using the scene module for my project and I am trying to have a small screen pop up with a box for text input. With the UI ...
Sep 07, 2022 - 10:25
ysiegel
Hello,
I am beginner and new to the forum.
I am struggling to display in a user friendly way text output of a Pythonista script that works...
Sep 04, 2022 - 20:26
Phlurim
The ANSI escape sequence codes don’t seem to work for printing bold text in Pythonista 3 on my iPad Pro. Many forum contributors suggest cod...
Sep 04, 2022 - 20:08
DavinE
Hi guys,
I have a problem when using the camera.
I have used the following code which I had from here:
```
def scanner_app(self, label_text...
Sep 03, 2022 - 10:38
gsot96
I am a beginner in programming. Started with python. I want to use Pythonista to write code for an iOS/iPadOs app that uses RSSI of a BLE de...
Aug 25, 2022 - 11:30
Raymond
How to get the touch position on ui.View() ? Without using any library exept “ui” ?
Aug 19, 2022 - 15:45
Niall
Hi,
I teach programming and I'm now using PySimpleGUI in my courses. The university only officially supports CPython on desktop and Anacond...
Aug 18, 2022 - 14:29
daxo
Hi,
I just don't seem to be able to have an alert dialog prompt for the selected row in my table view.
dialogs.alert('test', **sender.item...
Aug 08, 2022 - 19:26
buzzdenver
I have a script that is supposed to run in a loop: it requests a URL, then sleeps for 60 seconds. What I am seeing is that it usually stops ...
Using on iphone 12
Data storage in this iphone files
Hi I am new in Pythonista and have used stash to install a new package called yfinance...
Aug 07, 2022 - 15:02
Trüff
Hey there,
I have a problem with the following code:
```
import canvas as cv
# creates canvas
w = 200
h = 500
cv.set_size(w, h)
# size of ...
Jul 31, 2022 - 19:30
Phlurim
Can’t find any info about using tabulate() in Pythonista on my iPad Pro. If not feasible, are there any alternatives to tabulate()?
Jul 30, 2022 - 10:26
Anik
```python
my_list=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
even= list(filter(lambda x : x%2 == 0,my_list))
print(even)
```
Why does the above code show TypeEr...
Jul 19, 2022 - 17:22
Raymond
Is pythonista open source ? If yes please send the source url.
it have became very boring. Nobody is updating the application, and the app...
Jul 08, 2022 - 19:23
WyldKard
Have an old script that is throwing an SSL error in Pythonista, but not in Pyto. Anyone know why?
```
import requests
from bs4 import Beaut...
Jun 27, 2022 - 00:14
halloleooo
I 'm playing with [Pyto](https://pyto.app/), the new kid on the Python-on-iOS block -- and I am missing a lot of things (first and foremost ...
Jun 26, 2022 - 23:04
Phlurim
After creating my own file (“w”), I would like to know how to:
* Write floating point data to file
* Print (or otherwise view) entire conten...
Jun 26, 2022 - 17:45
kenficara
Under the wrench icon in Pythonista there is a “Run options” button with an input field to add arguments. If I enter “first argument”, “seco...
Jun 26, 2022 - 17:11
kenficara
In Automator there is now a Pythonista “Run script” action that takes “The name of the script to be run” as its argument. I have tried the n...
Jun 25, 2022 - 23:25
Nbredia
New to python here. I tend to lose my work a lot because of forgetting to save, and was wondering if it was possible to either have everythi...