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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Mar 02, 2019 - 00:35
mkeywood
Hi,
Is there an equivalent of JavaScript getImageData to be able to get pixel data from a Scene?
In Javascript I would use something like:...
Mar 01, 2019 - 09:50
shinyformica
For those of us who are extensively making use of the objective-c bridge to observe notifications and key/value changes, what is the right p...
Mar 01, 2019 - 06:58
michal
Hi,
I'm currently doing a course teaching programming principles using the Python REPL as a mandatory tool.
I bought Pythonista with the a...
Feb 28, 2019 - 22:55
some user
Hey guys, I'm new to pythonista and I need your help. I want to create a kind of calculator. I have tried it so many times, but my result ha...
Feb 26, 2019 - 18:54
[deleted]
My apologies if this has been answered before, I searched but couldn’t find it. Also, it should be noted that I’m just learning Python so I ...
Feb 26, 2019 - 08:05
upwart
In the python-announce-list newsletter, I found the announcement of a new Python implementation on iOS. Interestingly, PyTo, runs Python 3.7...
Feb 25, 2019 - 21:27
jokiehints
I get a error call running this script:
```
import csv
with open('data.csv', 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
fieldnames = ['first_name', ...
Feb 25, 2019 - 20:30
JasonN
Hi there,
When I run this simple script, everything works just fine but Pythonista prints the file location instead of just the file name. ...
Feb 25, 2019 - 18:07
jzhang21
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to reset the advertising identifier within pythonista.
Feb 25, 2019 - 18:03
jzhang21
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to reset the advertising identifier.
Feb 25, 2019 - 15:51
bmanns
Has anyone been able to create a Pythonista script that connects to Amazon Photo?
Ideally I'd like to create a script that:
1) Connects to...
Feb 25, 2019 - 11:01
jsamlarose47
Is it currently possible to use Pythonista's keyboard to manipulate text selection? e.g. invoke selection of word closest to cursor/caret, e...
Feb 25, 2019 - 08:27
lacaca
Dấu hiệu của trẻ bị tăng động là dấu hiệu giúp cha mẹ nhận ra điểm khác thường ở con. Các dấu hiệu của trẻ tăng động khác nhau và đôi khi rấ...
Feb 24, 2019 - 18:14
some user
Hey guys, I'm new to Pythonista and I'm currently working on a project. I can not get on right now. It's about bills. Can you help me? If so...
Feb 24, 2019 - 15:28
aurorawhale
When I use bluetooth keyboard support bar is always on display.(Tab, {}, [], ‘’, etc...) I want close this bar. How to close this bar?
Feb 23, 2019 - 16:07
adrius42
I wish to create a blank array of 100 elements
Where blank is either Integer 0 or Empty string ‘“” (two different use cases)
Then I wish to ...
Feb 23, 2019 - 13:04
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[PyKeys vs iOS keyboard](https://share.icloud.com/photos/0OzFUwg3Nds46cp06UTfFaBSA)
A few differences on iPad:
1. Keycaps on PyKeys are sli...
Feb 23, 2019 - 01:41
champak
Hi
I used the code posted in this thread https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/4435/open-multiple-web-browser-tabs/13 that discusses openin...
Feb 22, 2019 - 16:50
Brun0oO
Hi,
Here a demo : https://github.com/Brun0oO/Pythonista/tree/master/webvr_embedded
My goal is to embed a webvr experience using pythonista...
Hi all!
Is it possible to access contacts images in Pythonista? I could not find a corresponding field in the docs.
Thanks for your hints!
Feb 22, 2019 - 08:00
AlanE
Not a question but praise for the Xcode template for Pythonista 3. I had my (quite specialised) app accepted by Apple without much difficult...
Feb 21, 2019 - 21:32
wpeter11
So I can’t get astropy to work on pythonista... Whenever I run a script requiring astropy it spits out the error ‘Astropy requires NumPy ver...
Feb 20, 2019 - 12:32
AlexHevc
Hi,
Can one use desktop machine to author python scripts and use iphone to run updated scripts?
Something like scp/ftp access to Pythonis...
Feb 20, 2019 - 04:18
shinyformica
Anyone have a good way to do these things? From a cursory search of the forum and internet, I'm a little surprised to learn that it appears ...
Feb 20, 2019 - 03:31
Slimebot32
I’m making a basic game (I’m new to python) and am wondering why the app freezes when I try to run this code.
```
import time
import random...
Feb 19, 2019 - 23:18
mikael
Python wrapper for Apple iOS UI view layout constraints, [available](https://github.com/mikaelho/pythonista-uiconstraints) as `anchor.py` on...
Feb 19, 2019 - 17:59
Rakhir
I’m using Pythonista 3.3 test drive on an iPad Pro 2018 with the Apple keyboard. For the most part it works well, but I cannot seem to edit ...
Feb 18, 2019 - 23:27
shinyformica
Is there a good, canonical way to prevent a script from launching *again* if there is already an instance running? Specifically, I want to p...
It used to be that only those apps which published an URL scheme could be launched from another app (and not all apps did so, meaning that s...
You can find the script [here](https://github.com/cvpe/Pythonista-scripts/tree/master/Add%20home%20screen%20shortcut)
Based on a @omz [scri...
Feb 16, 2019 - 15:54
Jayblanca
Hello, I am very new to the programming world and my teacher asked us to bring our laptops to classroom to practice in the class. I am using...
Feb 15, 2019 - 12:42
greiggy
Hi all, Editorial has an excellent tap-and-view TOC which brings up an outline based on the markdown headings, which navigate quickly and cl...
Feb 15, 2019 - 03:51
FarmerPaco
Has anyone tried this yet?
I know paramiko is bundled in.
Has anyone successfully install scp?
[scp project description here](https://pypi...
Feb 14, 2019 - 10:32
Tower
Hello,
I made a very simple program on pythonista. I have to do some stretching exercises every day. There are different phases in this exe...
Feb 14, 2019 - 03:17
oldCovfefe
Hello all,
I am looking for a proven workflow to distribute a python script to others that run pythonista on IOS. Ideally I would like to on...
Feb 12, 2019 - 18:49
shinyformica
Whoo-boy...I am spamming the airwaves this past couple days. Here's another one...in my attempts to get the NavigationView to be a little le...
Feb 12, 2019 - 02:54
shinyformica
I'm noticing that present()'ing a view with style = 'popover' doesn't seem to take the window title bar into account when popover_location i...
Feb 11, 2019 - 03:59
oldCovfefe
Code snippet:
```python
import location
location.start_updates()
loc_dic = location.get_location()
addr_dic = location.reverse_geocode(loc_...
Feb 10, 2019 - 09:26
shinya.ta
I've made a keyboard application. I want to make a list of Emoji by its development.
Can I use the ui button to create a different window?
Feb 10, 2019 - 08:36
scoodood
The following code works fine on my OSX. But it doesn't work on Pythonista. Why?
Anyone know how to do dynamic update on Matplotlib? Thanks
...
Feb 10, 2019 - 07:17
TomD
My first day on Pythonista. I neeed to go to the IDLE so faulty code can be corrected. How is this done? I won’t ask so many stupid question...
Feb 09, 2019 - 20:08
Sarmet
Why my “print” function is ptinting the triplle of values of variable “g” and “ag” instead of only 1 value for ag and 3 for ag?
When O run ...
Feb 09, 2019 - 10:22
jokiehints
Hallo. I'm new to this forum and to the use of Phytonista. I live in Holland and my English is probably not the best there is. But neverthel...
Feb 09, 2019 - 05:50
oldCovfefe
TextView brings up the standard keyboard with dictation option. It would be nice if this could be done programmatically. 1.set dictation lan...
I am trying to understand the use of modules in stash and on the python console. I have a module that runs perfectly in stash with a command...
Feb 08, 2019 - 18:37
shinyformica
I was trying to use a slightly modified version of the code from this great thread:
https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/5026/get-the-name-...
Feb 07, 2019 - 19:28
craigmrock
Hi, working on UI layout and want to know how to get a photo from my camera roll or my iCloud Drive to display in the UI grid.
Thanks,
Crai...
Feb 07, 2019 - 12:46
JasonN
Hi there,
I'm just delving into python and I'm a bit stuck with argv. I understand how to use it with the command line on my computer but h...
It would be great if omz could provide some update for the preinstalled matplotlib. I am particularly interested in the pyplot feature 'Plot...
Feb 04, 2019 - 22:49
jporten
I am having trouble understanding the scope of what Pythonista can do. There is a wiki named Zim that I use on Mac and Linux, which has a wi...