Forum Archive
These pages contain a static archive of the old community forum for
Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Feb 13, 2014 - 11:23
Dann239
Just looking for criticisms... Unintentionally, my timing is in step with the master ccc AND credit to ccc with simplifying my 'days of week...
Feb 12, 2014 - 19:51
jeangoodwin
Now that Taskpaper (my favorite plain text to do application) is dropping its iPad app, I'm wondering if it would be possible to have Editor...
Feb 12, 2014 - 03:17
Bobk48
Unfortunately, even for a simple function definition, Pythonista does not work reliably. Instead of this app, I would recommend using a Pyth...
Feb 11, 2014 - 15:53
Janov
Is there any way to connect editorial to connected data's file transporter instead of dropbox?
Feb 11, 2014 - 11:26
alwesome
Hello. I am kind of new to the python programming and I am just wondering how to run scripts that require sys argv from the interactive prom...
Feb 11, 2014 - 02:24
EastSide
How can I print an Editorial document? Can't find any place in the UI or in workflows. Am I just not seeing it?
Same question regarding O...
Feb 11, 2014 - 00:56
Bobk48
If I create a function def in the editor, how do I run it in the command line window? On a UNIX machine, you can put the function definition...
Feb 10, 2014 - 20:00
adajos
I did some keychain.setpassword() stuff from the interpreter window that I would like to get out of my command history, but I don't see a wa...
Feb 10, 2014 - 17:58
bitbucket158
Was playing around with the contacts module via Pythonista over the weekend and noticed the following. If you read the modification_date fi...
Feb 09, 2014 - 21:26
Dann239
So I have a problem. I've thought and thought and googled and googled.
If today is Saturday... I want to set up a list (or possibly dict...
Feb 09, 2014 - 20:24
mooglinux
I'm looking for a way to take emails and turn them into todo items in 2Do. The only way to do this natively is to use toddledo, and then syn...
Feb 08, 2014 - 08:01
Sebastian
Hey guys! Just wanted to share a <a href="https://gist.github.com/SebastianJarsve/8832970">project</a> I started on today. It's called Conwa...
Feb 07, 2014 - 20:20
WyldKard
I created a Workflow that uses the "Set File Contents" feature. When I call the actual block (from the pre-populated Workflow sets) there's ...
Feb 07, 2014 - 16:49
torrilin
I have a Dropbox folder called "plaintext". It's where I stick everything from notes to myself on a phone call to plain text files that I'm ...
Combine Pythonista's location.reverse_geocode() with weather data from openweathermap.org to print out the weather where you are. The [open...
Feb 06, 2014 - 13:03
Chrishphoto
Hi ,
I am a novice both with regex and editorial.
I am trying to use regex to shift markdown headers on level down. I have tried find...
Feb 06, 2014 - 09:45
xldrx
Is there any way to access python files on Dropbox?
(I'm not asking about dropbox library)
Feb 05, 2014 - 19:45
upwart
I am new to Pythonista and learning every day more about this wonderful app.
I am trying to use location.get_location(), but all I get is...
Feb 04, 2014 - 17:51
rcreedon
Hi all, I am editing a program in Notepadd++ and then mailing myself the .py file. Once open in Pythonista I seem to have issues with the in...
Feb 04, 2014 - 16:49
the_buch
Does anybody know of a script or a way to do something like this in Pythonista? On my PC I use Calibre to convert Docx to HTMLZ, then extrac...
Feb 04, 2014 - 15:09
jaganat
It would be fantastic if someone will make a Python script to search and show **multiple** @tags in taskpaper syntax as a way to filter task...
Feb 04, 2014 - 14:27
jaganat
Is there a way to send an email w/o having to press send during the workflow? Python?
Feb 03, 2014 - 21:17
webvex34
Here is an example interactive form application. The interface UI is driven by the built-in webserver. It's based on some of the code in Ole...
Feb 03, 2014 - 04:24
stophlong
The linked gist takes whatever is in the clipboard and reads it out using google text-to-speech. The present form takes Spanish and reads i...
Feb 02, 2014 - 17:18
jenjen
When will python 3.x be supported? Any plans? Thanks. Jen
Feb 01, 2014 - 20:36
paulwb
Hi,
I'm glad I found Pythonista; it is a very neat piece of software indeed. This is a rather basic question, so I appreciate your patien...
Feb 01, 2014 - 17:14
Forinfo
I have a script that reassigns stdout to print a file like this:
sys.stdout = open('output_file', 'w')
Later I want to reset it ba...
Feb 01, 2014 - 11:40
Webmaster4o
I need to know how to use collision detection and how to give an object opacity. Could someone please post some code???
Thx
—Webmast...
Feb 01, 2014 - 07:47
comiquaze
Hi!
I downloaded Editorial earlier today, and I'm trying to make sense of all of it.
I'm trying to make one of Federico's workflow wor...
Feb 01, 2014 - 07:41
brumm
I started a new project, comments are welcome.
[https://github.com/humberry/photo_text][1]
[1]: https://github.com/humberry/photo_te...
Jan 31, 2014 - 18:02
the_buch
Does Editorial have support for Multimarkdown such as cross-references, metadata, image demensions, or tables? I've only just been introduce...
Jan 30, 2014 - 22:38
nixoid
Hi!
Using pythonista i find many good classes: Button, TextLayer etc.
Where I can read documentation of this classes (without console)?
Jan 29, 2014 - 17:35
kleerkoat
Is it possible to disable Pythonista stopping currently playing audio upon launch?
Thank you.
Jan 29, 2014 - 15:12
zlite
Is there any way to use the line() function in a layer? I want to be able draw lines on top of part of the screen, but not have to redraw ev...
Jan 29, 2014 - 11:03
Forinfo
Hi - just wondering if this is possible.
I am trying to learn some basic sqllite and want to try the full text search extension. I attem...
Jan 28, 2014 - 18:44
AeroShark
So it seems to me the best way to develop a user interface with pythonista is in the web browser module. My question then, is if there is an...
Jan 27, 2014 - 21:56
userista
I am a newbie when it comes to Python and I was wondering if there's a robust way to debug scripts in Pythonista. I am currently just inters...
Jan 27, 2014 - 20:36
userista
I am trying to get the [lastpass-python module][1] working on Pythonista but it keeps on crashing Pythonista. I traced the issue down to whe...
Jan 27, 2014 - 06:22
brumm
Maybe good for a start!?
[https://github.com/humberry/scene-tutorial][1]
[1]: https://github.com/humberry/scene-tutorial
Jan 27, 2014 - 00:02
solarfl4re
Hi,
I've really enjoyed using Pythonista on my iPad 3 as I learn Python. I have a question, however; in the console, or whatever it is ca...
Jan 26, 2014 - 15:24
userista
I'm trying to execute a shell command using paramiko's `.exec_command()` that will be a long running command (downloading files etc.) so I w...
Jan 25, 2014 - 23:30
rcrissup
Is it possible to save data somewhere on phone like settings for an application to read when started? It would needs to persist even if the ...
Jan 24, 2014 - 23:00
peterh86
I guess Ole is becoming a victim of Editorial's well-deserved success, as we ask for complicated new features:
When I develop a workflow ...
Jan 24, 2014 - 00:30
jugisto135
I've tried passing along a URL to an image, which didn't work. I kind if expected that, but do i have to create a temporary image file local...
Can someone explain or point to how you can post highlighted/colored python code easily to this forum in Markdown? I tried using the < pre >...
Jan 22, 2014 - 13:57
Dann239
I'm getting lost in the timedelta, datetime documents. I can't quite figure out how to add and subtract times. My current personal project i...
Jan 21, 2014 - 22:34
pudquick51
https://gist.github.com/4116558
This is a quick-n-dirty port of code I had running in another python interpreter on the App Store.
Example...
Jan 21, 2014 - 14:20
robde8
Is that possible?
Jan 21, 2014 - 05:53
rcreedon
I am an economist working on projects in the Bangladeshi garment industry. I am looking to develop an application that can be used by people...
Jan 20, 2014 - 23:18
urbanape
Would it be possible in the future to allow us to choose a format (JPEG or PNG) or at least to specify the quality of the saved image? I'm s...