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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Sep 14, 2014 - 10:29
bennettbrowniowa
First, WOW! I love Pythonista already! Thank you to creators and contributors!
I am using matplotlib and prefer to use the OO style of c...
Sep 13, 2014 - 20:00
zjtafsjgd7
Hi there,
In my Editorial workflow, I want to get an image from the clipboard or the camera roll, do some processing, and then export the...
Sep 13, 2014 - 01:05
[deleted]
![image (c) @tony][1]
'Classes' a family of classes (tap the class names), to:
(1) support project development and delivery:
-...
Sep 12, 2014 - 21:17
ruimac
I downloaded the PythonistaProjectTemplate to compile my scripts into fully working standalone apps.
But the resulting app is huge!! Almost...
Sep 12, 2014 - 20:18
briarfox
Thought I'd have a little fun and display the telnet ascii Starwars in pythonista!
Enjoy!
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
STARWARS...
Sep 12, 2014 - 16:24
briarfox
I had struggled with using modules that were meant to be invoked using the command line such as unittest and pylint. I recently discovered t...
Sep 12, 2014 - 01:19
ruimac
I'm trying to show an alert with console.alert
But I keep getting an error saying: AssertionError: Cannot show alert from main UI thread
S...
Sep 11, 2014 - 16:10
polymerchm
I have asked this on an older thread but will put it here for more clairty. I want to be able to place text into a custom view during its e...
Sep 11, 2014 - 12:47
NoneNone94
I want to make a code which shows a text on the screen and highlights any word when you touch it. so i need a function which returns size of...
Sep 11, 2014 - 01:18
[deleted]
Here is my ForumCodeBlock class. It returns either the first python script in a Pythonista Forum thread, or the first plist.
Python scri...
Sep 10, 2014 - 16:04
ruimac
I'm loving Pythonista. It is exactly what I would consider a nice way to develop some simple apps.
But when I tried to compile it in Xcode ...
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:37
ruimac
When I type **sep** and press Enter, I get a line like this:
// ****************************************
However, the comments in pyth...
Sep 09, 2014 - 23:16
[deleted]
Live streaming the Apple Event... wondering in what ways the latest will affect Pythonista. What additions to Pythonista would you like to s...
Sep 09, 2014 - 20:35
ruimac
Are there any plans for a Find & Replace option instead of just being able to perform a Find?
Sep 09, 2014 - 20:33
[deleted]
Here is my little ui wrapper class for replace code. It's designed to live in site-packages and be added to the Actions menu.
Obviousl...
Sep 09, 2014 - 19:40
[deleted]
Here is my Settings class project, It persists settings in a plist, either in the .py file (if you like the one file model) or a separate te...
Sep 09, 2014 - 13:05
Shambhala
I need to find a way to put ads (iAd, Admob, etc) in a standalone app made with Pythonista. Can someone help me out? It can be in XCode, Pyt...
Sep 09, 2014 - 06:55
manuguerra
Newbie question:
The current version of Pythonista (1.5) comes with Sympy 0.7.4.1, but I need version 0.7.5.
I have downloaded the newest ...
Sep 09, 2014 - 05:53
JadedTuna
The code is here: [https://github.com/Vik2015/appbug/tree/master/colorpicker](https://github.com/Vik2015/appbug/tree/master/colorpicker)<br>...
Sep 09, 2014 - 01:11
[deleted]
Here is my WebBrowser class. Simple, but with attribute for a local web server to close on exit - use it to make tools that browse the file ...
Sep 09, 2014 - 00:17
techteej
Small but growing [collection of games created with the UI Module][1].
[1]: https://github.com/tjferry14/Pythonista-UI-Games
Sep 08, 2014 - 21:15
rui_mac
I searched for Xcode But I found nothing here that could answer my question.
Is there any way to compile python apps created in Pythonista ...
Sep 08, 2014 - 19:12
ruimac
I created a new View where I'm presenting several items (TextViews, Buttons, etc)
I also created a routine for checking the values of some ...
Sep 08, 2014 - 17:42
ruimac
Is there any way to access the Console while the script is running?
I usually print stuff to the console while debugging or checking for lo...
Sep 08, 2014 - 17:27
[deleted]
Here is my Menu class project (BaseMenu, MenuController and 2 subclasses: Menu, MenuLevel.) It's designed to live in site-packages and be ad...
Sep 08, 2014 - 15:01
techteej
Finally [Cacti Killer is now available on the App Store][1]. Will be free from today (September 6th) to Tomorrow (September 7th) after that ...
Sep 08, 2014 - 07:51
JadedTuna
It isn't very good yet, a lot of stuff can be fixed, but it's a start :)<br>
Supports changing tabs, but doens't support moving or deleting...
Hello, this simple code:
```python
if x <> 0:
if colores == 1:
col = 1
else:
col = 0.1
else:
if colo...
Sep 07, 2014 - 22:33
[deleted]
Here is my little ui wrapper class for the standard comment code from the Pythonista docs. It's designed to live in site-packages and be ad...
Sep 07, 2014 - 21:59
Larry_Mondello
Even the simple examples in the Standard Library docs for the `atexit` module do not seem to work in Pythonista.
Sep 07, 2014 - 18:34
Dann239
I'm starting the first leg of two flights, the second being 6hours. I've downloaded a python style guide to read. Any great recommendations ...
Sep 07, 2014 - 16:22
techteej
I'm having a weird issue, Im using `v = ui.load_view('../PythonistaProject.app/Script.pyui')` to load my UI File in Xcode. It works fine ins...
Sep 07, 2014 - 13:10
JadedTuna
Will Pythonista ever be released for Android? That'd be extremely cool (I understand that some libraries will not work or will be different)...
Sep 06, 2014 - 22:00
JadedTuna
GitRepo with the app is here: https://github.com/Vik2015/appbug
When you click some zip file in the TableView, it asks you if you are sur...
Sep 06, 2014 - 18:37
bashedcrab
https://gist.github.com/BashedCrab/8949577
This started out as a Flappy Bird clone (can be done in under 100 lines of Pythonista), but I ...
Sep 06, 2014 - 16:30
JadedTuna
I've made this thread so people can post their package installer scripts here :)
I am currently working on the **networkx** installer. Go...
Sep 06, 2014 - 02:38
TutorialDoctor
I want to send workflows by the press of a button (via Dropbox, email, or iMessage.)
Currently I have to copy the workflow (from within t...
Sep 05, 2014 - 22:45
Dann239
When I delete a cell, the delete button doesn't disappear and the cell remains. If I call .reload() Pythonista crashes. Only two lines after...
Sep 05, 2014 - 21:12
techteej
As much as I've used Pythonista, I never got around to using shellista. What can it do? Does it let me do things like/similar to this?
...
Sep 05, 2014 - 20:53
ruimac
After clicking the [X] button at the top right of the screen to stop my script, it takes a long time (many, many seconds) to get back to an ...
Sep 05, 2014 - 19:45
Sebastian
Here's a simple [pixel editor](https://github.com/SebastianJarsve/Pythonista-Pixel-Editor/tree/master) I made. It only works on iPad, I don'...
Sep 05, 2014 - 19:26
ruimac
Can anyone direct me to a place where it teaches how to create standalone apps that run on iPhone and iPad, from a Pythonista script?
Sep 05, 2014 - 17:35
JadedTuna
I've ran my application and got this error (see screenshot). Running my program again just crashed the Pythonista.
I've been expecting su...
Sep 05, 2014 - 13:18
[deleted]
Here is my SettingsSheet class project that multiply inherits from ui.View and [Settings][1]. At the moment it only supports On/Off setting...
Sep 05, 2014 - 11:54
robinsiebler112
Is it possible to create subviews in the UI Editor? If so, a) how and b) how would I name them? I basically want to create several "pop-up d...
Sep 04, 2014 - 23:23
rui_mac
Ok, I'm very new to this. Although I already coded in python before, I only have Pythonista for a couple of days.
My problem is the followi...
Sep 04, 2014 - 19:24
JadedTuna
Any ideas why?
My code is:
```python
import ui
print ui.measure_string("Doesn't work")
```
Sep 04, 2014 - 18:27
MartinPacker
Occasionally on Evernote's own newsgroups the question of note templates comes up.
By a template it's usually meant as something you take...
Sep 04, 2014 - 18:13
nvedwards
Hello there!
I am trying to create images of various mathematical equations so that I can include them in a document that I am working on...
Sep 04, 2014 - 14:50
JadedTuna
Looks like NavigationView is taking up too much space if `flex` is set to `"WH"`
```python
import ui
view = ui.View()
table = ui.T...