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Oct 19, 2014 - 03:01
eMeS
Is there any way to hide it? I don't use it but I will be happy with more available space to see while writing.
Oct 18, 2014 - 22:00
lovinlife
I clung to TaskPaper.app until the iOS 8 update finally broke it. It was good while it lasted...
So, I found my way to Editorial, and I'm...
Hey Guys,
So i'm relatively new to python, but have a moderate amount of matlab programming experience, so not a complete newbie to prog...
Oct 18, 2014 - 05:19
polymerchm
I noticed tonight that if I run one script using numpy (as np), then run diffferent script where the variable has the same name (no numpy th...
Oct 17, 2014 - 22:12
jmv38
Hello everyone!
I am a complete noob here. My main programming experience is from Codea / lua, a great environment to quickly make small...
Oct 17, 2014 - 16:22
joeybaker
I know CoreData was a mess, but CloudKit looks a lot better. Any plans to support it?
Oct 17, 2014 - 15:30
janAaron
Hi everyone!
does anyone know how to slow down the speed on the built in text to speech module within pythonista? I looked, and it said ...
Oct 17, 2014 - 04:58
TutorialDoctor
I am using ui.alignment to align text, but the ALIGN\_RIGHT attribute aligns the text to the center, and the ALIGN\_CENTER attribute aligns ...
Oct 16, 2014 - 15:52
Cagatay
What about updating the 2.7.6 engine to 3.x?
Oct 16, 2014 - 14:56
Cagatay
Any info why multiprocessing library does not exist?
Oct 16, 2014 - 14:44
sebietter
I'm using paramiko to (successfully) connect to my server using SFTP. I tried to upload an image chosen via photos.pick_image() but can't ge...
Oct 16, 2014 - 14:11
Terryops
That's all we know, iOS 8 has released and iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ are getting popular.
So I'm wondering if you guys are going to have an u...
Hell all,
I wanted to ask if you had any experience with using twitter wrappers on Pythonista.
I only need to send tweets and have seen tu...
Oct 15, 2014 - 16:34
lysisius
Hi, I've used requests module to make web service calls. is there anything equivalent in Pythonista?
Oct 15, 2014 - 07:19
rui_mac
Is there any way to load a movie and be able to play parts of it?
I found nothing in the docs.
Hello all!
I wanted to ask, if it was possible to launch Pythonista in a selected folder to use as 'home'. The thing is that I have quite...
Oct 13, 2014 - 18:23
techteej
Maybe some big ones that are out there like pygame or TkInter??
Oct 12, 2014 - 19:41
subsmile
I've just started using Editorial as my main writing and note taking app and love the functionality. I do however seem to be getting a lot o...
Hi there,
Is there any way possible to get the Pygrib module (https://code.google.com/p/pygrib/) working in Pythonista?
Or if possible, ...
Oct 12, 2014 - 07:35
apselon
Image https://www.dropbox.com/s/bs6mk5n2u3at6yr/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2012.10.14%2C%2010%2051%2009.png?dl=0
```python
import ui
fro...
Oct 12, 2014 - 07:26
TutorialDoctor
I tried uploading a workflow and I got a Code 503 error.
As a note, this workflow have over, perhaps, 80 individual actions.
What does...
Oct 11, 2014 - 18:51
techteej
Is there any way to call a 'self.__' outside of the scene that it is originally in? I'm trying to add a menu where you choose a color, then ...
Oct 10, 2014 - 15:45
pixeldynamo
I'm wondering if Pythonista could be used to solve a problem that thus far I've been unable to address with any of the image editing apps on...
Oct 10, 2014 - 05:58
TutorialDoctor
How do I import a pyui file into Pythonista? The python file mentioned [here](http://omz-forums.appspot.com/pythonista/post/5893775784148992...
Oct 10, 2014 - 05:27
TutorialDoctor
There is a Snippets backup and a Workflow Backup workflow in the directory, but not a document backup.
Anyone wanna take a crack at it? ...
Oct 09, 2014 - 23:12
theoriginalbudman
I've developed a couple of simple workflows that serve quite well for the type of writing I do. I've assigned icons and placed them on the b...
Oct 09, 2014 - 19:33
Harshal
Since I am a furniture trader, and not a software person, I am totally clueless, and need your help. I have a workflow with multiple custom ...
Oct 09, 2014 - 16:50
Superdaddy33
So, on pythonista. Well, you see, I am running a dictionary password cracker for science fair. It would really help if I can use it on iPad ...
Oct 09, 2014 - 16:42
JonB
[here](https://github.com/jsbain/uicomponents/blob/master/RootView.py) is a subclassable RootView which aims to fix two bugs in the ui modul...
Oct 09, 2014 - 13:50
Superdaddy33
I would like to know if there is any way to link a text file to a script so that it recognizes it and runs it. It won't recognize my passwor...
Oct 09, 2014 - 11:02
essandess
Here: https://gist.github.com/essandess/02b98ab5f0b32e9a4e5f
The game is self-explanatory. Colored square responses indicate a correct ca...
Oct 08, 2014 - 19:35
nasadave
Before I go too far down the learning curve, I am wondering if requests is the right module to do what I'm trying to do.
I'd like to pass...
Oct 07, 2014 - 14:03
TutorialDoctor
I used a shellista script to download a .zip file. I didn't know where it was stored in Editorial. I then checked the content of a particula...
Oct 06, 2014 - 12:34
inoddy
When using scene.image to draw iconicons they appear black. Using scene.tint makes no difference. I would like them to appear blue. Any idea...
Oct 06, 2014 - 10:01
techteej
Working on a Tic Tac Toe game, and would like to implement a clear board function, instead of closing and re-opening the view again. Any sug...
Oct 06, 2014 - 04:02
tullyhansen
Brand new user with a couple newbie questions… wanting to move to Editorial from Notesy as my daily driver for a mess of (mostly plaintext) ...
Oct 05, 2014 - 21:58
Brian
From what I understand, a delegate is a function that gets called whenever it's action occurs. I have my function, but it's not being called...
Oct 05, 2014 - 18:36
tofagerl
I'm not a coder, but this seems to be quite easy. All i need is a workflow that parses the .md to a .html document in the same folder.
I.e...
Oct 05, 2014 - 11:59
Gerzer
I'm working on a folding text workflow called [Orga][1], and want to know what people would like to see in it. Thanks!
(You'll also need ...
Oct 05, 2014 - 00:45
TutorialDoctor
I have finally decided to figure out how to do external CSS in Editorial, and it is very easy.
Your HTML goes inside of a markdown file, ...
Oct 04, 2014 - 22:24
JonB
Would it be possible to change the forum input field to include `autocapitalize=none` and `autocorrect=off`? Makes it kind if difficult to ...
Oct 04, 2014 - 21:59
Gerzer
I was wondering if anyone knew how to use ui.in_background with Xcode? Whenever I try to use it or the threading module my standalone app cr...
Oct 04, 2014 - 16:51
brumm
Inspired from [markdown2pdf][1] I took a closer look at the reportlab module. With [JPG2PDF][2] you can create a pdf with selected jpegs. Do...
Oct 04, 2014 - 09:05
JadedTuna
Basic snake game I made to test some stuff :)
GitRepo: [https://github.com/Vik2015/snake-ios](https://github.com/Vik2015/snake-ios)<br>
...
Oct 04, 2014 - 08:02
JadedTuna
My third (I think) creation using `ui`!
GitHub browsepy: [https://github.com/Vik2015/browsepy](https://github.com/Vik2015/browsepy)<br>
...
Oct 03, 2014 - 02:07
Brian
How would I use the ui module (preferably using the built in visual ui editor) to create a ui that has a constantly updating text box? I wan...
Oct 02, 2014 - 22:13
JonB
Anyone install ios 8 on ipad 2? I'm waiting a few days, but curious if there are any quirks, etc with pythonista in ios8?
Oct 02, 2014 - 06:23
bee18
Hi,
I plan to write a simple app that puts a datetime stamp to a photo based on its EXIF data. So far I haven't found a way to read the E...
Oct 01, 2014 - 16:24
nasadave
I'm using the following to take a photo on an iPad:
myimage = photos.capture_image()
But that always accesses the iSight camera (the o...
I have found the following best practice tips useful for formatting Pythonista code before posting it to GitHub:
**One Time Setup:**
1...