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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Jun 24, 2014 - 22:50
karthikmaiya
Hellow, So I was able to use pipista to dowload nltk. Now I can see the nltk-2.0.4.tar.gz file in the directory. However, I am trying to use...
Jun 24, 2014 - 14:49
Jchandlerhall
Hi folks, love Editorial. Just found the forums and look forward to more workflows.
I haven't upgraded to the latest version, and see tha...
Jun 24, 2014 - 13:57
gyronaut
I'm programming a prototyp for a flight navigational software and I would like to use Pythonista. Although you added functions for reading s...
Jun 24, 2014 - 13:03
DrNo152
Is it possible to bypass the iOS "Open in..." menu (called by 'console.open_in') if the bundle identifier 'com.xxx.yyy' of the app to be ope...
Jun 24, 2014 - 12:26
DrNo152
Is there a way to give focus to a textfield in the "Custom UI" action other than manually tapping to it if it pops up? That is, I would like...
Jun 24, 2014 - 11:59
KrazyKatapilla
Hi,
Is anyone else experiencing regular crashes since the latest upgrade?
I've had quite a few - particularly when doing the following...
Jun 24, 2014 - 10:11
MartinPacker
Later this week I'm going on a very long plane journey armed with (inter alia) my iPad and iPad Mini. Both have the latest Editorial (and Py...
Jun 24, 2014 - 04:42
bitbucket158
I'm enjoying learning the new ui module and had the following question. How can I make use of multiple views? Meaning, multiple top level ...
Jun 23, 2014 - 23:35
wolf71
The new UI lib is very powerful. but need more demo code.
1. How to add a timer on ui,so can get a stock price list every 30S.
2. How to...
Jun 23, 2014 - 20:07
dgelessus
Is there a way to fully reset the interactive console, like a `=== RESTART ===` in IDLE? The clear button only seems to clear the console ou...
Jun 23, 2014 - 10:47
Gcarver166
I created a script I added to my action menu that uses a TableView to show me a list of templates such as for loop, if statement, function d...
Jun 22, 2014 - 14:47
sammy
The speech module seems like a neat addition, but I'm trying to automate a task that uses speech and since it doesn't block (as in it seems ...
Jun 21, 2014 - 22:50
Gcarver166
I Have TableView using a ListDataSource with an array of dict items containing the title, and accessory\_type of detail\_button.
I am atte...
Jun 21, 2014 - 17:39
techteej
Currently working on adding monsters to Cloud Jump. I got somewhat of a working monster class (although not really exactly what I would like...
Jun 21, 2014 - 17:28
sethdrebitko
A big problem I run into writing on the iPad is that I can't upload to places like Kindle or Smashwords because the browsers default the upl...
Jun 21, 2014 - 13:25
Dann239
Please forgive me if this seems simple, I am confused on how to pass a list or dict to ListDataSource. I am a bit over my head but I want to...
Jun 21, 2014 - 13:16
cosmocaos
Hi I want to remove the last line in the console to write again in te same place an ouput.
Jun 21, 2014 - 04:03
JonB
Here are a few tools. (Indent block, unindent block, and execute block) integrated in a sidebar that runs in the editor.
I'm loving the new...
Jun 21, 2014 - 02:58
MrPoush
I'm having problems getting readings from the magnometer using the new `motion` module.
Attitude, Gravity, and User Acceleration all seem...
Jun 21, 2014 - 02:28
Sandglass
First of all, thanks for pushing out 1.5 in such a short time frame. But unfortunately I've been unable to update to 1.5 from 1.4 in the App...
Jun 20, 2014 - 22:46
pypad
Got the app a few days ago and was amazed at how Beautiful Soup was a part of one of the libraries. Decided to import some code I was writin...
Jun 20, 2014 - 18:30
kleerkoat
I'm trying to figure out how to append the project name to the end of tasks that are archived.So far the only workflows I have seen for arch...
Jun 20, 2014 - 13:16
tomkirn
Hi,
I have some trouble with ui.imageview. Trying to set an image I cannot display images from 'My Images'. Choosing an image from Emojis...
Jun 20, 2014 - 12:39
bmccardle
How do you push a view from tableview? You can push a view from a button since it is a subclass of view, but tableview is a subclass of scr...
Jun 20, 2014 - 00:00
tomkirn
Hi,
this is my first try to compile a Pythonista script using the "Pythonista ProjectTemplate". Unfortunately I got an error from Xcode:
...
Jun 19, 2014 - 17:48
andeecollard
I'd just like to say Pythonista is an absolute life saver and I love using it. I've had an issue with Ole's email script that I've been usin...
Jun 19, 2014 - 15:54
dansherman
As part of a larger project using the awesome new ui module, I'd like to make a stopwatch. I have a label displaying the time, and a button ...
https://github.com/Pythonista-Tools is now open for business ;-) The goal is to create an open GitHub Organization that contains code and li...
Jun 18, 2014 - 19:52
Kenbo01
My applications need to display a lot of tabular data (metrics, financial info etc.). I currently use bottle and webbrowser to achieve this ...
Jun 18, 2014 - 19:33
smkirby229
I just wanted to write to say a big heartfelt "thank you" for Pythonista.
My 8 year old son is dyslexic and he was always frustrated whe...
One of the easiest ways to share code that you've written in Pythonista is to create a [Gist on GitHub](https://gist.github.com). You can do...
Jun 18, 2014 - 03:25
[deleted]
I got a new iPad, but now whenever I try to run pipista.py, the PyPi installer script, it installs the pypi-modules directory, but there app...
Jun 18, 2014 - 02:08
techteej
I've created a [basic high scores module][1] for you guys to use, as I have used it in some of my projects already. It's not perfect, but it...
Jun 17, 2014 - 18:11
onionradish
I have a script written as a self-contained web app using bottle to serve the content and the integrated webbrowser to display it.
Python...
Jun 17, 2014 - 15:34
ermentrout
I just started using Python and Pythonista, mostly because many of my students use it and I need to run their codes. How do I get their .py ...
Jun 17, 2014 - 14:45
auerland
Greetings to the forum from a new member!
Thanks a lot for the latest 1.5 update, it is really awesome. Unfortunately, the app crashes no...
Jun 17, 2014 - 13:02
techteej
I'm having some trouble implementing high scores into this game. It tells me the revers of what I expected (see code block specifically belo...
Jun 17, 2014 - 09:35
auerland
When I activate the calculator workflow from the wrench menu, the calculator is displayed with transparent background, that is, the text und...
Jun 17, 2014 - 07:52
darkbrow
Hi. I'm learning Python at my online class.
Pythonista is must-have tool for my class.
I'm using Pythonista in my iPad using bluetooth ext...
Jun 17, 2014 - 06:03
Kenbo01
Very worrying tweet on Ole's Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/olemoritz
Jun 17, 2014 - 04:53
Pablo
This is not a thread to ask for any new feature.
It is just to thank you Ole for the very brilliant work you've done with this new version...
Jun 16, 2014 - 21:24
LawAbidingCactus
Hi, this might seem like a somewhat noobish question, but does Pythonista still support x-callback-url in the most recent update? I don't wa...
Jun 16, 2014 - 20:55
bennr01
Hello,
Does anyone know if there is a way to start scenes with the UI-modul? I tryed ui.in_background with the scene.run function, but the ...
Jun 16, 2014 - 20:01
north.islander
is there a plugin or some way to get vim-like functionality in Pythonista?
for example navigating the document with h,j,k,l keys insert m...
Jun 16, 2014 - 18:22
filippocld223
I want to put a matplotlib graph in a ImageView. How to do that?
Jun 16, 2014 - 17:10
briarfox
I'm trying the get pytest working and I keep getting a no module named py error. I'm guessing there is a py.test but I can't seem to find it...
Jun 15, 2014 - 23:25
the_buch
I'm curious if it's possible to have a workflow call an x-callback-url, do whatever it's supposed to, then have the same workflow pick back ...
Jun 15, 2014 - 04:17
minnepicker
Greetings,
I have a list of emails that I'm trying to separate it into a few lists of just a couple emails each.
To begin with, I hav...
Jun 15, 2014 - 01:56
phillipsmn
I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing issues with importing libraries in a python script that is assigned to a button action....
Jun 14, 2014 - 17:42
north.islander
is there any plan to include a Vim like functionality into Pythonista?
this is a very common thing in desktop IDE.
for example, on Visual...