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:
→ Join the Discussion!
When you download locally a file in iCloud Drive, it will stay on your iDevice until IOS needs some disk space for other things (new apps, n...
I'm trying to get the alpha_vantage package installed and working under Pythonista. <https://github.com/RomelTorres/alpha_vantage.
'pip inst...
Apr 02, 2018 - 23:13
jmv38
I have just updated from ios10 to ios11, and my script to change picture dates to reorder them in photo app does not work any more. I get th...
Apr 02, 2018 - 14:58
Kokii
Hi, I am beginner, I need help about UI text field... The question is: How can I define text field to become password field(when I enter pas...
Apr 01, 2018 - 07:29
Drizzel
Hi guys,
I'm building a game with the scene module,
and I figured out how to make sprites move in a straight line. Does anyone know if I can...
Mar 31, 2018 - 18:25
upwart
I am trying to save a couple of PIL images into a GIF with something like
```
img[0].save('test.gif',
save_all=True, append_i...
Mar 30, 2018 - 00:18
npr3ha
Hello, I’m very new at this, but I’ve read the Ui docs provided with the app and done some googling, and I still can’t find a solution to a ...
Mar 29, 2018 - 14:29
victordomingos
I am experimenting with Pelican, a static website generator and managed to pip install all the requirements using StaSh. I was able to type ...
Hey so I know how to open sites by importing webbrowser but it won’t let you close sites. Does anyone know how to close an already open site...
Mar 28, 2018 - 19:23
yjq01
Sometimes, I have to read long codes. So if Pythonista could fold “if”, “while” or “def”, it would be very convenient.
Example:
if a == 1:...
Mar 28, 2018 - 11:55
bobsmith76
My python program relies heavily on pickles. Without pickles the thing will never work. Further, it would take an enormous amount of time ...
Mar 28, 2018 - 03:45
reticulated
Hello Pythonista Folks,
First - before I share this working wreck of mine, I want to point out that the code needs a _lot_ of refactoring, ...
Mar 28, 2018 - 03:13
Auer
I have what I believe to be a simple question..... how do i get the last line of code here to work.
```
tile.texture=current_tile
```
tile i...
Mar 27, 2018 - 19:02
BobKuederle
These are working for me:
* ```pythonista3://myscript.py?action=run``` - runs the script from the iPad storage
* ```pythonista3://myscript....
Mar 27, 2018 - 13:12
guenthi57
Hey everyone!
I'm using Pythonista for some weeks now and everything has been working fine, but some days ago, suddenly I can't import matp...
Mar 27, 2018 - 11:00
deepbluedave
Hello - I would like to play with the Google Cloud Client Library.
My first attempt was to install google-cloud-datastore using StaSh - wh...
Mar 27, 2018 - 09:17
Hongik univ
#mnist, #deep learing, #pickle error, #numpy version, #ram
Mar 27, 2018 - 00:57
Auer
It seems that whenever I use present_modal_scene to show the menu that I stole from the game examples everything else breaks. It's all copy ...
Mar 26, 2018 - 22:22
craigmrock
Trying to make a class with the following line of code that pythonista doesn’t like but works fine in idle
def__init__(self, rare=False):
Wh...
Mar 26, 2018 - 07:13
kzh125
Such as image size 200x2048
```
import photos
all_albums = photos.get_albums()
for album in all_albums:
if album.title == 'Test':
asset...
Mar 25, 2018 - 17:49
kzh125
import sys
import re
import time
def main():
for item in range(200):
try:
print(item)
time.sleep(3)
except BaseException as ex:
...
Hi, I am completely new to Pythonista and can’t find the basic information to start a script that would rename a file and save it.
This scri...
Mar 23, 2018 - 04:43
JonB
The testflight build expired today... any plans to get a new one out @omz?
Mar 22, 2018 - 22:51
shaviro
I have been composing markdown texts on Editorial for my iPad Pro that include images (jpg and/or png). The image links are to files in the ...
Mar 22, 2018 - 22:39
mapmangame
Hi
I'm developing an app using pythonista and the pythonista app template. I've hit a snag trying to implement in app purchases using the c...
Mar 21, 2018 - 14:21
Maxmad68
Hi,
I have a script presenting a View without the title bar.
But when I swipe down with two fingers on the view, it close.
I would like to k...
Mar 19, 2018 - 20:41
technomadllc
Hi Everyone - Apologies for this question, but I didn't see in docs: How do I force-save? Explicitly save my edits? I am concerned about v...
Mar 19, 2018 - 20:01
chri
I am trying to read a csv-file. Both python and csv-file are stored on icloud.
But Pythonista cannot read the file. Any ideas what causes th...
Mar 19, 2018 - 13:56
smiddleton
Hey guys,
I'm hoping you can help. I'm pretty stuck. I have created a UI that has a button on it. When I press the button I want it to send...
Mar 17, 2018 - 12:08
Bjucha
Hello I have added a ui.view on my scene that is displayed when my game starts, and at the same time the Scene.Paused = True condition is ac...
Mar 17, 2018 - 02:26
robertiii
Been trying to figure out profile building and totally lost!
Mar 17, 2018 - 01:11
robertiii
How do I create a home screen icon link to a script. I have looked all over and not found anything that works.
Mar 15, 2018 - 16:57
Arnold
I got Stash to install successfully. I ran pip install Twitter successfully. But I got an error with pip install Twitter_Auth "failed to f...
Mar 15, 2018 - 11:05
adalin
Today,I read an article about PCB pollution,and I was deeply impressed by that article which named "[PCB Pollution Effects and Its Preventi...
Mar 13, 2018 - 22:31
jameschau
Eager in developing Pythonista apps using semantics at user and data layers.
Mar 13, 2018 - 14:47
robertiii
I have no idea why nothing is called when I tap the cell. The cells populate correctly with data and everything works, including delete, exc...
Mar 13, 2018 - 11:44
Jason
Hi all,
I'm trying to make a simple pedestrian detection script in numpy and port it to run on my phone. It consists of 2 scipts (hog_pytho...
Mar 12, 2018 - 16:31
itribs
in Safari
```
import appex
print(appex.get_web_page_info())
```
return {}
```
import _appex
print(_appex.get_input())
```
return
```
[{'a...
Mar 11, 2018 - 18:14
ChurchHTucker
The "Editorial Backup" workflow appears to be broken. If I try to create a backup I get a series of error messages ending with: ValueError: ...
Mar 09, 2018 - 14:05
richiwalt
Why is formatted colored text out considered invalid syntax ?
print "%d = \033[91m%d\033[0m x %d \033[92m(or %d)\033[0m with a remainde...
Mar 08, 2018 - 21:24
mikael
... in stash.
Could anyone please try it to see if this is my problem or global?
Mar 08, 2018 - 05:43
walterwang
I have a login ui view that when authenticated will show a setup scene. This scene is added to the root view with SceneView(). However, I wo...
Mar 07, 2018 - 21:34
tekboi
I picked up this app for my iPad as a quick way to test logic and syntax while learning python. I use a logitech keyboard attatchement and w...
Mar 07, 2018 - 13:26
cgeese
I’m getting a new error while trying to access my iCloud Drive from within the app.
“Could not read directory contents”
“You may not have ...
Mar 07, 2018 - 13:20
cgeese
ICloud error
Mar 06, 2018 - 17:41
robertiii
How would I listen for a certain volume threshold and then do an action when the volume threshold reaches that point. I just want to use the...
Mar 06, 2018 - 06:05
Drizzel
Hi guys,
I'm creating a fairly simple game at the moment where I need multiple enemies to walk over my screen. As I do not want to waste hun...
Mar 05, 2018 - 23:03
pierre-chavez
Hi everyone I want to share this tutorial to control leds using pythnista and esp8266.
[link ](https://pierre-chavez.github.io/iot-esp8266/...
Mar 04, 2018 - 17:02
jessearwhite
I've tried both my own custom UI and other workflows and it looks like when you select a row in a table using the basic UI builder nothing h...
Mar 03, 2018 - 20:05
mikael
So, one would like to create GUI applications using Python and the kind of solid, no-surprises UI toolkit like the one Pythonista has - and ...