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Jan 29, 2018 - 18:07
Dnomin
Hi, I just want to know how can I know when some app opens by user. For example, in while(True) check opening app photo and ask password whe...
Jan 29, 2018 - 13:57
zrzka
Here's a simple document describing how to ask a good question and why it is so important to include as many details as possible. I still fe...
Jan 28, 2018 - 22:13
Sfoid
I would like to run my scripts to be portable and run them on mac. I use the sounds module, and I can’t find it in pip. Is it possible to us...
Jan 28, 2018 - 19:16
Unknown
My problem is. When I enable the user to input something. Like a password to proceed into the code. It breaks because you haven’t told passw...
Jan 28, 2018 - 18:22
antrod
Hi there,
Is it possible to use a script stored on iCloud Drive in an app extension? I keep getting that the file is not found when I try. ...
Jan 27, 2018 - 21:24
mfsouledelafont
When i run a script beginning by
Import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
I receive the error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/...
Jan 27, 2018 - 20:58
tkrk
【Help!!】Errors that always appear at startup
Hi,
Since I do not usually use English, I am not used to English communication. So there may b...
Jan 27, 2018 - 13:55
Phuket2
I read [this](http://www.mactrast.com/2018/01/get-siri-read-anything/) article today. Just wanted see if it would work in Pythonista. Ie. r...
Jan 27, 2018 - 12:24
mikael
I have a stream that shows status open, and accepts bytes that I write to it, but the delegate handler callback is not firing. I suspect I m...
Jan 26, 2018 - 14:32
kami
Hi,
how to change the textcolor of a Datapicker. Temporaly it is only Black?
Thanks a lot.
Cu kami
Jan 26, 2018 - 12:00
Guildenstern
For some strange reason, I can't insert images on my Markdown texts. I've been using Markdown for years now but it seems there's something t...
Jan 26, 2018 - 07:00
Majike
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Jan 25, 2018 - 13:45
burns
I added a pythonista ui view as a subview to an underlying native view.
Displaying labels and buttons is working fine. So I assume that I ...
Jan 23, 2018 - 12:57
7points
iPad Pro 12.9 / IOS 11.2.2 / Pythonista 3.2
When using UI Designer, Tint Color can't be set (Button, Switch, Slider, SegmentedControl ...)...
Jan 21, 2018 - 15:41
tguillemin
I have created a sqlite script in Pythonista, and I wish to insert/update/append/delete/retrieve data stocked in an existing .db file which ...
Jan 21, 2018 - 07:00
rovitotv
Greetings,
I am having a heck of a time trying to get a simple OpenGL example to run....this is an example that I have used on the Mac a...
Jan 20, 2018 - 11:33
bobsmith76
First, very basic question. I literally cannot enter a change in the python text unless I swipe left. When I hit a button and the change re...
Jan 19, 2018 - 12:54
biob
Is there any chance that Pythonista will implement any neural network libraries in the the future? Have been Playing with neural networks ba...
The latest Pythonista supports saving scripts to iCloud. And indeed, I can save them to iCloud on my phone and read them on my iPad, and vic...
Looking through the documentation I can see that there's no standard way to set the user agent of the webview client. **My question: is it p...
Jan 17, 2018 - 11:39
djorge
Hi,
In the UI editor after selecting and copying 2 ui items I am not able to paste them. The menu paste does not appear.
I was able to pa...
Jan 17, 2018 - 10:50
Phuket2
I just seen a interesting article today about accessing your google home on your local network. Here is a the [link](https://rithvikvibhu.g...
Jan 16, 2018 - 01:43
davidenrique9
UI, user interphase, python
Jan 15, 2018 - 18:04
diomedea
When I try to download the sample files for mplot3d, I get sent to an error page. Is anyone else experiencing this, and has anyone else work...
Jan 14, 2018 - 19:45
bg2b
I've got a little script for making half-size screenshots that I'd like to use as an appex. When I invoke the script normally, it pops up a...
Jan 14, 2018 - 14:17
ClemRockZ
Hello,
I am having and issue, I don’t know how to use the def function on Pythonista because there is no shell.
Can someone explain me just...
Jan 14, 2018 - 09:20
daveterry
I've noticed that the DropBox sync is painfully slow. At first I thought it might be DropBox itself, or WIFI, or my VPN but when checking ot...
I was testing the multiprocessing module and I ran this script on PC and it works fine, but using Pythonista on IOS gives PermissionError: [...
Jan 13, 2018 - 21:42
reticulated
Hi all,
I am just looking for some general direction here, is it possible to process incoming audio - lets say for text to speech / pitch r...
Jan 13, 2018 - 21:11
wiley
Howdy! I’m a beginner fooling around with the ui module. I’ve created a pyui layout in the editor, and set my button actions to functions in...
Jan 13, 2018 - 10:41
ricky_itly
Hi guys, I have a problem with my code:
I don’t understand what’s wrong with my function to enable the swipe right gesture.
Thank you in ad...
In the process of using Synchronator on multiple devices I managed to erase most of the Pythonista files on both my iPad and Dropbox. I did ...
Jan 12, 2018 - 21:36
reticulated
Hi there,
I am using the Gestures library from [mikaelho](https://github.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures) (github)
I am trying to get the...
Jan 11, 2018 - 03:14
beatmode
I need help downloading discord into Pythonista cause I’m trying to build my bot and paid $10 for the app so I can code for my bot, but it d...
Has anyone tried to get this to work? [urlwatch](https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/) and in [git](https://github.com/thp/urlwatch)
Pytube was working fine but I suddenly started getting the following when downloading:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/...
Jan 10, 2018 - 14:14
Matteo
Hi all, sorry maybe this question has been asked (I've not searched, sorry): when I try to restore files or folders from Pythonista Trash fo...
Jan 10, 2018 - 12:50
Phuket2
Sorry if this has been covered before.
But I tried to use the Today Widget, today (I have tried before, but long time ago). Anyway, I was ...
Jan 10, 2018 - 09:00
cappy
Since Apple did a bad thing in iOS 11, the user now has to go to settings, WiFi, then turn WiFi on or off. In iOS 10 and earlier, you coul...
Jan 10, 2018 - 08:10
Dann
Long time listener, first time caller. I apologize if this has been asked. I dug around the forum for thirty minutes. How can I make the wid...
Jan 10, 2018 - 02:48
meleyz
Hello everyone. I am new to the forum and need some assistance. I am trying to put together a small script with a basic UI for my own person...
Background:
I am writing a Scene application (a somewhat complex card game) and to do that I need gesture control for. I looked at the Gest...
Jan 09, 2018 - 21:46
MrMyrmex
Hi.
Everytime on run this TCP Client script on my iPhone i get the error message from the title. Any ideas why? The script works fine on Wi...
Jan 09, 2018 - 15:17
Phuket2
@omz, I am not sure if the implementation of the notification module is a pure reflection of the objc lib or not. But it seems to me that i...
Jan 09, 2018 - 13:14
Phuket2
There are a lot of posts that are not using tags. It seems like it would be a good idea to use tags. Eg. If you click a tag, you get a nice...
Jan 09, 2018 - 12:52
Phuket2
Just wanted to ask if anyone knows if there is a feature/attr etc somewhere in the datepicker in countdown mode to show **days**, hours, min...
Jan 09, 2018 - 03:08
shtek
why not keep compatibility？
Jan 08, 2018 - 10:33
ndan
Hello,
I am interested in the app for use with TaskPaper.
I’m wondering if Dropbox is the only option?
And if the sync process is encrypted...
@omz In the misc part of V3.2news, you wrote "Opening a file that is already open in a different tab switches to that tab instead of opening...
Pythonista is, of course, in the apps dock of my iPad.
When I do a long press on its icon, a popup window is displayed with two recently mod...