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Sep 23, 2016 - 00:55
mstonespeedy
Hey, everyone. I'm new to Pythonista, and anxious to see what it can do!
I'm just about ready to grab some scripts from our company git rep...
Sep 23, 2016 - 00:10
RMurtsoo
Hi Pythonista crew
I try to change a Imageview height by his name.
But "ui.Imageview('Image').height = 120" is not working
So how would yo...
Sep 22, 2016 - 18:15
glitchassassin
I am having difficulty adding a ui.View to a modal subclassed scene.
When the scene is run directly, I can add the view in the scene's `set...
Sep 22, 2016 - 14:44
Phuket2
I made the most basic of functions to try to decide based on a CSS color background, what color to use for text on the background so it's no...
Sep 22, 2016 - 13:34
Phuket2
Yeah, sorry. I know this is a stupid question. I am having a very difficult time getting my head around it though. I have a very simple sl...
Sep 21, 2016 - 07:53
j1wan
I live in Seoul, South Korea which corresponds to GMT+9 (Asia/Seoul). Working with the reminders module, I found very strange due date behav...
Sep 21, 2016 - 00:03
macfox2
How do I stop a file from loading when I open Pythonista? I imported a large text file into Pythonista and opened it by mistake. Now, when I...
Sep 20, 2016 - 14:43
Phuket2
A very simple utility to select/filter from the 148 CSS color names. Then you can copy the CSS name to the clipboard for pasting into your c...
Sep 19, 2016 - 15:04
Matteo
Hi , I'm new user of Pythonista and I have some little knowledge about Python language. I want to improve my skill trying to write a symboli...
Sep 18, 2016 - 17:51
db_81
I'm using it for learning python and simple data processing.
I'm curious about how other people are using it, and maybe get some ideas for n...
Sep 18, 2016 - 17:33
happy_variable
```python
# coding: utf-8
import ui
import appex
import Image
v = ui.load_view()
img = appex.get_image()
if img:
v["image"].image...
Sep 18, 2016 - 15:09
Phuket2
pythonista_startup file is not being called on start up. I have force quit Pythonista a few times to double check
Sep 18, 2016 - 14:55
Phuket2
Was not sure were to report this. Here or on Github. Anyway, I choose here.
But the following has stopped working
btn.image=ui.Image.named(...
Sep 18, 2016 - 14:42
smithy101
It seems 3D Touch doesn't list scripts anymore for Pythonista 3. This is on an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.
Is this intentional?
Thanks!
Sep 17, 2016 - 18:49
Niall
I know Apple's policies end up meaning that app developers often have to abandon support for older iOS installations (e.g. when Apple mandat...
Sep 17, 2016 - 17:08
Phuket2
This is possibly very stupid. It can be hard to know sometimes. The code below does not run as the pyui files are not included. It's more ...
Sep 17, 2016 - 07:21
wnMark
Had some problems in running Pythonista3 beta on my new iphone7+. I created ip7+ from backup from iphone6 (still ios9). After starting pytho...
Sep 16, 2016 - 18:02
Phuket2
TGIF 😱😬
Again, I say lab, because the below is crap. Again, not much time today, raining friends again. But this post just meant to genera...
I don't know if this has been reported before but I noticed that Editorial doesn't appear to be detecting multiple languages/keyboards with ...
The script
asks to pick 2 or more photos
get their "taken date"
selects either the picked photos (if more than 2) or all photos (if 2) with...
For example, I need to run scripts ten minutes, but less than ten minutes after the pause screen lock program to run, you can prevent the sc...
Sep 14, 2016 - 23:58
RMurtsoo
Ill try to get images from a album on my ipad to use for a background and a button image.
Get a picture with:
import photos
all_assets = ph...
Sep 14, 2016 - 13:07
robopu
does anybody have some good suggestions for an editorial equivalent app for mac osx? i've been out on the road for over a year with only an...
I try to call an objective_c function, but as I don't understand a lot, my script crashes and app is removed without any message.
I'm sure I...
I wanted to see if the retrying library would work. I used pip install under stash to install retrying (and six which seemed to be a depende...
Sep 13, 2016 - 19:38
frank
Hi, I'm just getting started with Pythonista and I have a basic question on autocompletion:
If I do the following, either in the console o...
Sep 13, 2016 - 19:21
Phuket2
I didn't say [share] code because I am just trying, I know what I have done us crappy. I have touched on **ui.animate** a few times, but n...
Sep 12, 2016 - 18:26
procryon
So first of all I'd like to say hi to the community here because I'm pretty new. I understand the language enough to work with but I don't u...
A little script to show how to extract exifs from a photo, get its GPS tags and display an Apple map in the sheet view, with a pin where the...
Hi Folks,
I just got word that my presentation on Pythonista was accepted for [PyCon Ireland 2016](https://python.ie/pycon-2016/) on __Nove...
Sep 10, 2016 - 18:49
SpiesWithin
[Error Pic](lhttps://imgur.com/a/GRPoB)
This is in Discord.py
Sep 10, 2016 - 17:24
NickAtNight
Trying to figure out how to simply download a file to my iPad.
I found a Python2.7 example, and modified it to this.
import urllib
file...
I only try to get a photo attached in a mail and I get an error...
When I first save the image in the camera roll and I use the same script ...
Sep 09, 2016 - 08:46
furuide
Just became a Pythonista 3 user, and so far greatly enjoying the app.
I'm trying an external bluetooth keyboard, but can't find any shortcu...
Sep 09, 2016 - 04:36
NickAtNight
I don't see a raw_input() command.
Input() works.
But how do I use raw_input()
Sep 09, 2016 - 02:18
Bob Walance
With the UI Designer's help, I have a simple button and also a label (Record_label).
In the button's Action code:
...
view["Record_label"]...
I've created a NavView template and put it on GitHub for anyone to use as a starting point for creating a NavView based app using Pythonista...
Sep 08, 2016 - 10:17
SimCityWok
Using youtube-dl to download videos and sometimes instead of MP4 it downloads WEBM.
@jonb suggested using webview, and if that's the case, ...
Sep 07, 2016 - 15:50
Phuket2
I am sure the subject has come up before, but maybe there is a solution now. Is just about presenting a sheet. I am pretty sure, In std Pyt...
Sep 07, 2016 - 13:51
NickAtNight
Using an iPhone, how do we pass say 3 ARGV 's to a script when we run it.
Can't figure out how to run a script from a command line on the i...
One more time, I've a problem with accents
I use Pythonista 3, in Python 3
I compare a file name (got with ftplib nlst) to a file name built...
Sep 07, 2016 - 05:15
reefboy
Say I wanted to auto fill info into a website. Could I do that in a python script?
Sep 06, 2016 - 05:03
nannv
I am going to buy a new case for my ipad mini. i saw leather case is nice . but i don't think is good to protect my ipad, because i always b...
Sep 05, 2016 - 17:27
mako
Hello -
Im trying to get TLS 1.2 working in a script by setting the SSLContext to PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2 -
ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PR...
Sep 05, 2016 - 15:58
Phuket2
@omz, with the code below I was just exploring possibilities yet again. The below is not to bad.this or variations of this have been done b...
Sep 05, 2016 - 09:55
lachlantula
Hi all,
my friend and I are working on a little game together, making use of the Scene module. However we've found that the tilt controls ar...
Sep 05, 2016 - 05:53
wolf71
how to using objc get the currentRunLoop ?
+ (NSRunLoop *)currentRunLoop
using :
c = cdll.LoadLibrary(None)
c.currentRunLoop()
...
Sep 04, 2016 - 19:33
Phuket2
@Webmaster4o, I was just experimenting with your module livejson. But appears you are handling all a lot of data types as lists. The below ...
Sep 04, 2016 - 14:53
uj_jonas
First of all please, excuse my bad English and code :)
So I was browsing the forums, looking at all sorts of topics. I got tired of copy-pa...
Sep 03, 2016 - 23:55
Bob Walance
Greetings,
I'm brand new to Pythonista and I want to use UI Designer to create a form.
Within UI Designer, I have added a LABEL box to the...