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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Feb 08, 2015 - 20:37
michaelee
While it's easy to copy the HTML output of the markdown converter to the clipboard, I'm looking to copy the actual rich text (I.e., as rende...
Feb 08, 2015 - 20:29
polymerchm
```python
# coding: utf-8
# and example of tableview and how to control/use them
import ui,console
def listShuffle(list,row_from, ...
Feb 08, 2015 - 20:15
reefboy1
Is there a way to control screenshots through pythonista?
Feb 08, 2015 - 17:29
TutorialDoctor
We have **markdown**; we have **Taskpaper**; we have **TextExpander**; we have **Python**. Now, all we need is **LaTex**. Then Editorial wil...
Feb 08, 2015 - 15:30
donnieh
If I made a Pythonista script and wanted to read/write to a .txt file (like log data) that is in my Dropbox, how would I go ahead and do tha...
Feb 08, 2015 - 13:08
brumm
I recoded my FileManager for smaller devices. Just scroll the button bar to see all commands. And be careful "RemoveDir" removes files and s...
Feb 07, 2015 - 04:47
michael_recchione
I've been trying the following:
import canvas
from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("./myfile.jpg")
image = im.tobitmap()
canva...
I thought now that there's no *Open in...* anymore, I'd build a little UI/script to get files from Dropbox into Pythonista more easily:
[...
Feb 06, 2015 - 19:59
M42e
Does anybody have a suggestion for a python WebSocket client, there are a few out there.
Thank you very much
Feb 06, 2015 - 18:08
peterh86
I've got `Multimarkdown` turned on in settings. I type some fenced code like this:
empty line
three backticks
code line 1
code lin...
Feb 06, 2015 - 17:32
donnieh
Is there is a way to take a series of pictures in stead of using the "single shot" photos.capture_image() function? I am seeking a possible ...
I wrote this little script to use push notifications using Pythonista :)
```python
import requests
#You need a pushbullet.com accou...
Feb 06, 2015 - 15:27
reefboy1
What is screen scraping? From what I know it's like getting info from some database(i think). And also how can I screen scrape? Thanks for y...
Feb 06, 2015 - 03:06
ealdaz
I have been experimenting with creating a Scene and adding a number of layers inside the scene and capturing the different touch events, thi...
Feb 05, 2015 - 17:53
M42e
Is there something like a unique device id?
Thanks.
Feb 05, 2015 - 16:47
M42e
Is there any way to discover other devices running a specific pythonista script?
My idea is to develop a simple network game.
Any Ide...
Feb 05, 2015 - 13:53
Tizzy
There is a python module called pexpect which allows for computational control of interactive command line programs such as ssh, telnet or o...
I want to read lines from a text document. But I can't seem to get the FTP connection working..
from ftplib import FTP
ftp=FTP('...
Feb 05, 2015 - 01:04
ltddev
Can anyone point me to any documentation that shows which modules of the standard 2.7x library is not supported by Pythonista?
I am trying ...
[pythonista_undocumented.py][1] compares [introspection][2] against http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios
Did I get it right?
``...
Feb 03, 2015 - 21:43
ltddev
"VisualAge for Java" supported an internal tool api that made it possible for third party extenders to extend the main product. This may see...
Feb 03, 2015 - 21:04
galtenberg
I'm seeing a difference and possible bug in the behavior of the editor module. (using version 1.5)
I want to read a file's contents. It w...
Feb 03, 2015 - 19:46
tomkirn
Hi all,
When trying to use a dialogs.list_dialog from within an Ui.view I got no result back from dialog. Is this a bug or do I misunders...
Feb 03, 2015 - 19:08
fiannao
I'm fairly new to coding and Python, but have been using NLTK. I've been trying to download NLTK onto Pythonista, but have not had much succ...
Feb 03, 2015 - 17:36
koyeung
Would there be any plan on optimising for more screen space?
rgds
Feb 03, 2015 - 12:36
M42e
An easy way to quickly switch between multiple files.
My first project using Python. Get it here: [gist@github](https://gist.github.com/m...
Feb 03, 2015 - 02:35
Dalkey
<p>I am trying to highlight the first row in a tableview to indicate that it is the default selection in the table. I have tried variations ...
Feb 02, 2015 - 15:25
reefboy1
First of all this module is just starting out and will be better in the future. You MUST name this module `gec` . After you have copied the ...
Feb 02, 2015 - 13:53
michael_recchione
I would like to build an app that keeps track of location, signal strength, data rates for data connections, information about drops, blocks...
Feb 02, 2015 - 12:25
marquito
Hey,
does anyone have some inspiration on how to implement/use a versioning system.
That probably is like asking: what can be an easy and...
Feb 02, 2015 - 09:40
polymerchm
So, can you capture the event of the "x" in the upper left hand corner of a presented ui.view being touched to allow for a cleanup before t...
Feb 02, 2015 - 07:06
reefboy1
Has anybody made a workflow to be able to text message your blog/text in console form(link etc)?
Feb 02, 2015 - 06:29
reefboy1
Is it possible to program a module? Or even import it?
If so, how?
Feb 02, 2015 - 05:22
ForeverHawk
Sorry if I sound like an idiot, my English isn't very good and I am new to the Python. I just started using Python. I've been trying out som...
Feb 01, 2015 - 16:27
dgelessus
Quick and easy script to change the name of files and folders without Pythonista's automatic extension guessing thing. Allows "changing" a f...
Feb 01, 2015 - 15:17
bennr01
Hello,
I have done something very stupid:
I made a for i in xrange(9999999999999)-Loop writing str(i) to a file called "test2.py" (.py so ...
Feb 01, 2015 - 12:30
ywangd
The goal is to make it easy to search/install/uninstall scripts (both single and multiple files). So end-users can install scripts by just a...
Feb 01, 2015 - 10:33
armobird
I am very glad to see numpy available in Pythonista, hurray!
Just wondering if anyone managed to install pandas 0.14 successfully at Python...
Jan 31, 2015 - 21:39
upwart
I am making an animation movie in Pythonista, which is to be recorded and distributed.
Of course, I use Scene for this purpose. But, there ...
Jan 31, 2015 - 20:50
techteej
Working on overhauling the Pythonista Tools website, I need to know if I can get some volunteer writers for the upcoming blog?
Jan 31, 2015 - 17:25
ealdaz
I would like to use my own images for an application, I have read in the "Using Pythonista" page (http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/io...
Jan 31, 2015 - 09:35
drscheme
Hello everybody,
I'm wondering if there is an option how I can trigger speech recognition via Python. The other way round (text to speec...
Jan 30, 2015 - 22:25
wradcliffe
Is there any interest in having Pythonista be able to do CV apps?
I ran across this very recent project that seems to be looking for a ne...
Jan 30, 2015 - 16:19
darkhelmet
Hi all, forgive me for asking what maybe a silly question, but is there an easy way (other than manually copying and pasting) the link for t...
Jan 30, 2015 - 14:16
donnieh
How do you disable a webview so it doesn't respond to touches?
(A webview object, not the webview pop up sheet)
Jan 30, 2015 - 04:35
polymerchm
Is this doable? I understand (I think) how its accomplished in native iOS, but ot sure if @OMZ has exposed enough.
Jan 30, 2015 - 03:32
C0deH4cker
I'd like to start off by saying that I'm so glad that Pythonista now has a community forum. I've been using this app and Codea for a while n...
Jan 29, 2015 - 18:28
reefboy1
This is an app that I modded a bit. Original code was written by [@ccc](https://omz-forums.appspot.com/user/ccc)
This is my modded version...
Jan 29, 2015 - 16:14
techteej
I just purchased Editorial, and have been messing around. I found the built in Lorem Ipsum Generator (as I was working on my own) and wonder...
Jan 29, 2015 - 16:00
polymerchm
Does gitview (gitui) recongnize the .gitignore file if present?