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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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I wanted to move a folder of files to Pythonista using Diskaid; however, Pythonista doesn't show up as one of the Apps. What am I missing?
Just a quick tip if you're bored with the standard sound effects that are included with Pythonista:
You can actually use a lot of standar...
May 27, 2014 - 18:12
Ourkid123uk
Hi im Andy and today is my first experience using Pythonista. My vision is to use Python as a Algorithmic Trading tool to backtest trading i...
May 27, 2014 - 17:39
shende
Are there any plans to include the networkx package in Pythonista in the next update? It is a great resource while teaching algorithms (usin...
May 27, 2014 - 15:49
Rothrock42
Is there a way to get forum notifications for threads I've posted to? I went into my profile, but couldn't find antyhing to turn this on.
May 27, 2014 - 15:34
minnepicker
Greetings,
I need to use a variable in a file name. I'm using the Set File Contents action to create a new file. Thanks to Ole, I've got ...
Hi,
so I'm trying to define a shortcut for some structure I need to use repeatedly. Yet whatever I try, it doubles my entry. May this be ...
May 25, 2014 - 23:52
techteej
Hello everyone. I thought I would share a small tweet button I made using the web browser module and the scene module. I did this because we...
May 25, 2014 - 07:31
siddbudd
hi OMZ,
hearing that you are working on a ui module for both pythonista and editorial makes me quite excited, i am very much looking forw...
May 25, 2014 - 02:15
Shambhala
My app works fine on Pythonista. When I export it to XCode, it doesn't work on the iOS simulators. Please help!
Screenshot: http://i.imgu...
May 24, 2014 - 22:55
Nemo110
Hello all,
I am new to pythonista, does the app support any type of graphing similar to Matlab plot?
Regards
May 24, 2014 - 21:32
KevinKarney
I am quite new to Pythonista (& Python), but have managed to use it to code some very complex astronomical calculations. But what I would re...
May 24, 2014 - 10:44
maus80
Hi Guys,
I've finished my minesweeper game. Check the blog out at:
[http://www.leaseweblabs.com/2014/05/minesweeper-game-ios-python-py...
May 24, 2014 - 04:42
Dann239
I want to make this more functional:
https://gist.github.com/PyDann/7a692708639821562d06
But I can't hookup my add button. I created a l...
Any chance of getting [Pandas][1] to work under Pythonista? I know that it requires num.py which I believe OMZ has said we might see at some...
Can IPython be installed under pythonista or does it include incompatible dependencies?
May 21, 2014 - 14:56
techteej
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May 21, 2014 - 04:51
karthikmaiya
So im hearing a lot about pipista and its ability to install other modules. I want to install nltk or mathplotlib with pipista. Van someone ...
May 20, 2014 - 22:59
Rothrock42
Brand new to Python and just discovered pythonista. I've been using IDLE on my MacBook. I want to load some txt files (word lists) onto my i...
May 20, 2014 - 20:32
MartinPacker
I'd like to be able to synchronise my text snippets between my iPad and my iPad Mini?
Any way to do this? Any infrastructure to build a t...
May 19, 2014 - 23:52
Gerzer
I am making a new app in Pythonista using the new contacts and location modules, but when I export to Xcode, the modules just aren't there. ...
May 19, 2014 - 15:01
techteej
I would like to build a Character Selection scene with the scene module using images saved to the device, but I'm not quite sure how exactly...
Has anyone tried to run [Scrapy][1] with Pythonista?
[1]: http://scrapy.org/
May 18, 2014 - 21:02
techteej
So I wanted to add a landscape mode to the cascade example, but using the scene.should_rotate didn't work.
I added:
def should_rot...
I don't know how important this is but I was following a tutorial and tried to do an import site in interactive mode:
>>> import site
Tr...
May 17, 2014 - 20:08
filippocld223
Is there a way to get the device serial number from Pythonista?
May 17, 2014 - 14:13
gregory.pease.280
Hey all, I'm still pretty new to Pythonista and I've been reading all the documentation I can get my hands on but I still have a couple of ...
May 16, 2014 - 21:45
HugoSviercovich
Hi, running the code below in Pythonista is not working as expected. Looks like the worker thread is being "blocked" by raw_input whereas in...
May 16, 2014 - 21:36
briarfox
Hello all, I'm new to python and I thought I would share a little app that I've been using. It's a simple socket client/server that will gz ...
May 15, 2014 - 13:50
AlexKucera
I'm trying to filter out lines that contain a date string so I can present them as a list.
The lines that I am looking for are formatted...
May 15, 2014 - 00:20
mgracitelli
I built a workflow to translate from Portuguese to English, using google translate.
It is working fine for languages without accent (ie, fr...
May 14, 2014 - 14:09
Kenbo01
I'm interested in implementing pull-to-refresh functionality in a Pythonista app. Has this been done? If not, any suggestions as to where to...
May 14, 2014 - 12:37
jsguntzel
There's a `.py` script I use on my Macbook that I'm trying to fire up in Editorial. On my Macbook it returns every regex match, but in Edit...
May 14, 2014 - 02:37
jcolivo
Good morning,
I hope things are going well.
First, I want to thank you for developing Editorial, a wonderful application that I use con...
May 13, 2014 - 22:51
briarfox
Would it be possible to pass arguments into a script in the actions menu? I see that you can add arguments when it's created but it would be...
May 12, 2014 - 21:43
briarfox
I've been playing around with bottle and would really like to be able to open other extensions besides txt. I've used the recommended bottle...
Is there a way to have a workflow select the entire contents of the code block currently being edited in a Markdown file? I have a couple of...
May 10, 2014 - 22:46
misha_turnbull
I have a question with the math.pow() function. I was attempting to take the <i>n</i>th root of a number, and there is no function to take ...
May 08, 2014 - 17:11
pvanallen
Is there a way to change how render_text() decides to word wrap the text? I need for it to be not as wide.
May 07, 2014 - 18:32
nealtz
I want to generate PDFs from SQLite output and found the [ReportLab Toolkit](http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/rl-toolkit/). A se...
May 05, 2014 - 20:21
jesse
Hi,
I seem to have run into a bug with the "My Images" screen.
I added some images for a project I'm working on.
On one device, I...
May 05, 2014 - 15:33
mirko
Hello,
I have a game which I created with Pythonista.
I'd like to pimp it a little by adding a logo and a background.
Where do I put th...
May 05, 2014 - 11:41
jonmoore
If you own Ulysses III, check out the latest 1.2 upgrade. The export module based on CSS allows styled exports of RTF docs for Pages & Word ...
May 03, 2014 - 16:51
jonmoore
Ole,
I'm aware that this doesn't exist at the moment but would it be possible to add at some point.
If any other Python experts has a...
May 03, 2014 - 12:27
filippocld223
I am trying to edit some parameters of workflows with python code. i've got the path where the workflows are stored but i don't know how to ...
May 03, 2014 - 00:46
MartinPacker
In another thread I posited the idea of a workflow to create an Evernote note with a table of workflows in it.
It occurs to me - based on...
May 02, 2014 - 22:13
jesse
Is there some way to have the status bar remain visible on the iPhone?
I am new to Pythonista and was playing with the demo scripts. I was trying to figure out how to modify clock.py so that the second hand has ...
May 01, 2014 - 20:20
Shambhala
I want to be able to have a pop-up appear with console.alert() while running a scene, but it usually seems to freeze Pythonista and I have t...
May 01, 2014 - 10:23
MartinPacker
In my blog, interspersed with posts about Mainframe stuff (cool stuff but off topic) I've just posted this personal view of Editorial:
[A...