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Jun 10, 2020 - 14:11
tmessers
Hello everybody, i have a problem using location.geocode. By using a ui, i want to get the geocode of an address. Although from my view t...
Jun 10, 2020 - 00:33
adem
So I am trying to draw my first triangle using GLKit, but it’s not showing ``` def Vertex(x = c_float, y = c_float, z = c_float, r = c_flo...
Jun 09, 2020 - 18:05
Moe
Hi, I am trying to build a scene with custom textures, which I pre-process using PIL. From PIL I then convert them to ui.Image and then I wa...
Jun 08, 2020 - 20:29
AceNinjaFire
I hope everyone is having a good day! Hey all, I’ve been using Pythonista for a good while and wanted to know if it would be possible to in...
Jun 07, 2020 - 21:44
adem
Hello, I just started using pythonista and I can vouch that it's the best app on AppStore right now. Kudos to the team behind this amazing...
Jun 07, 2020 - 08:47
Ermintrude
Señorita best songs to listen today. Do you think so?
Jun 06, 2020 - 10:43
ryubai
i created a new class and add a function to methods. but it showed such error. how can i return cgsize correctly? thanks in advcance. TypeE...
Jun 05, 2020 - 15:01
pavlinb
Hi, I have studied face_detector.py from [here](https://qiita.com/inasawa/items/3e730c338bcefd522fb8). Here detector is applied on video c...
Jun 04, 2020 - 16:11
pipe
Is it possible to ask for input with the IOS input thing? Like the window that shows when you enter the WiFi password for example, can I mak...
Jun 04, 2020 - 04:20
Pythonidae
Are you able to make is so that **tab** moves forward with what you're entering inside a list like it does in Pycharm instead of tab actuall...
Jun 02, 2020 - 15:43
ihf
I am trying to run a program that is part of piecash and getting: ``` /private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/05D14C00-CCAC-4E98-A3CC...
Jun 02, 2020 - 06:17
Bienxanh
I have a collection of mp3 files on a NAS on my local network. I'd like to read the mp3 tags of some of these files using Pythonista. Can I ...
Jun 02, 2020 - 01:38
Bumbo Cactoni
How would I do a button on the screen that creates an input when pushed (preferably using scene module, but ui also works)? For example, the...
Jun 01, 2020 - 22:46
OkieWolf
```python def button3_tapped(sender): sidea = float(v['textfield3'].text)I sideb = float(v['textfield4'].text) sidec = float(v['textfield...
Jun 01, 2020 - 22:29
Snaresman
Hello I’m using an iPad as a data logger. The Pythonista program works great. My internet not so much. I loose connection several times a d...
May 31, 2020 - 21:54
ihf
I’m writing a shortcut which runs a Pythonista script and has arguments. I would prefer not to use the clipboard to send the arguments but I...
May 31, 2020 - 04:22
mcriley821
Inspired by @DoinStuffMobile request for a Joystick-like control for the scene module, I created a very basic joystick using the objc_util m...
May 31, 2020 - 03:31
shinya.ta
The beta edition of Pythonista three has expired, and I can't use the current code. What should I do?
May 30, 2020 - 20:42
billysnake
Just loaded pythonista on my ipad pro. I want to read in a data csv file which I cannot do. Can anyone tell me where to put my data file and...
May 30, 2020 - 15:45
samaklis
I have a very simple snippet of code which makes a connection to my server running MQTT and subscribes to a topic. This is a simplified exam...
May 30, 2020 - 07:27
shinyformica
Could someone verify my sanity here...I was noticing some widgets in my UI were getting a different non-system font under Pythonista3.3 on i...
May 30, 2020 - 04:13
AZOM
So this surely has been asked before, how to make the program touch a spot on the screen on a time basis (example: clicking bottom right of ...
May 29, 2020 - 23:07
DoinStuffMobile
Hello everyone! I was wondering if it is possible to put a joystick-like control on a game in scene (think like on a mobile rpg game)? I ...
May 29, 2020 - 01:36
OkieWolf
Why is it that when programming you have to convert angles to radians before any calculations? I created an Excel spreadsheet a while a...
May 28, 2020 - 22:10
mikael
I have this middle-sized data structure that I want to maintain in a format that does not contain any extra parentheses or curly braces. Her...
May 27, 2020 - 22:24
Bumbo Cactoni
Currently, I’m trying to set up an alarm, but I don’t know like any built-in sounds with the sound module. Please help?
May 27, 2020 - 19:21
vignesh
@cvp and @JonB and @Brun0oO have worked to adapt ARkit to Pythonista. I was wondering how able Pythonista is to handle code adapted from sw...
May 26, 2020 - 21:29
OkieWolf
I have experience with Lisp, VB .NET, VBA but this is my first time with Python so please excuse my lack of Python knowledge. I feel really ...
May 26, 2020 - 03:14
Bumbo Cactoni
Hi! I wanted to color my text in pythonista, but, for some reason, there’s no colorama module! Here’s the code that should work: ``` from c...
May 25, 2020 - 12:00
frostfox
I think pythonista is a great app but it needs some improvements. 1-Xcode template kit should support Python 3- Python 2 support ended and ...
May 25, 2020 - 09:48
eriknie
I want to select files from a folder. I use the following code: from pathlib import Path self.contents = list(curPath.iterdir()) f = self.c...
May 24, 2020 - 18:59
abredall
So I've been trying to figure out if it would be posible to define a function to navigate between lines. For those with big fingers using iO...
May 24, 2020 - 15:23
brumm
[MyVocabTrainer](https://github.com/humberry/MyVocabTrainer) has reached a beta phase. If there is no need for a second keyboard layout, you...
May 24, 2020 - 09:34
donnybahama
Hi, everyone! I’ve just started working with iOS Shortcuts (with a very specific project in mind) and I hit some limitations that led me to ...
May 23, 2020 - 08:01
ClackHack
A couple of days ago I downloaded Pyto since I wanted the libraries pythonista couldn’t offer me. And boy, I was not to happy. I mean for 10...
May 20, 2020 - 21:24
tmessers
Hello everybody, within my code i am creating ui.TextFields by a function. I need the input of that TextFields as values for further calcula...
May 20, 2020 - 18:56
codecowboy
I am getting the following error after installing django with Stash and pip: ``` [~/Documents]$ django-admin.py startproject mysite stash: ...
May 20, 2020 - 16:53
mcriley821
I’m trying to make an notification system that will send a system notification when there’s a new topic on the most recent section of the fo...
May 20, 2020 - 01:22
abredall
I was wondering if it would be possible to build a super simple game to be played on the thin one-row bar above the pythonista keyboard? M...
May 20, 2020 - 00:24
mrjk
Hi all I've written a script which loops through a list of photos, displaying the current one while some processing happens behind the scen...
May 19, 2020 - 15:22
TechieWeirdo
Hello all, I want to install the ```holidays``` library in Pythonista through StaSh but I got this error halfway through installation: ``...
May 19, 2020 - 03:21
FLAME130
I’ve been creating a flappy bird style game. I’m new to programming, and I can’t get the bird to pipe collision to function. It seems as if ...
May 17, 2020 - 22:01
Bumbo Cactoni
So, I’m trying to create a yellow circle using the scene module. Does anyone know how I would do that, then move that yellow circle very smo...
May 17, 2020 - 14:44
huub
console.set_font sets the size of the OUTPUT font. I like that a lot as a larger font size is easier on my eyes. However, is there a way to ...
May 17, 2020 - 12:18
codecowboy
Is there a way to change the console width on Pythonista? I’d like to make it slightly wider if possible. I can switch the console to full s...
May 16, 2020 - 21:26
p.ydtzh
Hi I created an app in Pythonista and I want to publish it on the App Store but I don’t know how, how to do it?
May 16, 2020 - 12:29
johnuings
I have tried using numpy by entering an example found online and the plot appears but none of the three widgets work. They are button, slide...
May 16, 2020 - 00:15
rownn
Hey everyone, I have a ui.path in a shapeNode, which is growing somehow every second. Unfortunately, the path is jumping from state to stat...
May 15, 2020 - 23:10
nfmusician
I've got an app using a TextView for editing plaintext files that has a save button. In the case that focus is lost from the Pythonista app ...
May 14, 2020 - 23:49
z9612
I'm following a tutorial from codeacademy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGf2GcyHPhc When I hit the play button to run in Pythonista not...