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Jul 27, 2016 - 10:25
KlMa
Hi
I am using Pythonista 2.1 on a ipad air and having problems with Pythonista crashing. Maybe matplotlib is involved, but its difficult for...
Jul 27, 2016 - 03:06
JonB
I had the idea to make a custom backend for matplotlib, to allow pythonista to be used with pylab as an interactive matlab of sorts. I fou...
Jul 26, 2016 - 21:50
NoBetterName
OK, this might sound a bit weird, but here it is:
I want to mimic the Camera Roll. I know I can have all my files in a separate folder in m...
Jul 26, 2016 - 21:22
lukaskollmer
Hi,
I'm creating a subclass of `UITextView` using `create_new_class`.
This subclass implements a couple of methods specific to `UITextView...
Hi,
Do you have any plans to support split-screen multitasking in iOS9?
Cheers,
JJ
Jul 26, 2016 - 16:46
macfox2
I'm trying to install pygal. To do this, I pasted [pipista](https://gist.github.com/pudquick/4116558) into an empty script and saved it in s...
Jul 25, 2016 - 16:54
stephan108
This is what it says on "http://omz-software.com/pythonista/" how can one achive this without loading the code up to a webside. I'd like to ...
Jul 25, 2016 - 06:49
cook
Didn't know about the `logger` module until I was reading [this discussion](https://github.com/omz/Pythonista-Issues/issues/116#issuecomment...
Jul 24, 2016 - 22:48
lukaskollmer
How do I use the `detail_text_label` attribute of `ui.TableViewCell`?
The documentation mentions something about the cell style, but there'...
Jul 24, 2016 - 14:36
Phuket2
Really, if you are doing anything with JSON, this iOS app is fantastic. Unfortunately because I brought it I can't see how much I paid for i...
Jul 24, 2016 - 05:58
dsr20131017
I'm eagerly trying to move over to Pythonista 3 from the earlier version and have run into a problem:
I had some code working in Pythonis...
Jul 23, 2016 - 20:07
Phuket2
No revelation here for the guys who are not beginners in Python . And maybe there is a better way to do it.
But when you pass tuples as pa...
Jul 23, 2016 - 03:28
cook
Not sure if this is *really* possible but I don't know if I have the right things here. It seems possible from reading around that despite w...
Jul 23, 2016 - 00:45
midkin
Hey there.
I 've been trying to create the Pong Game in Pythonista.
I have created the game in my PC using python's tkinter module.
Howeve...
Hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to access Notification Center (and take a screenshot). Alternatively, I was wondering if there w...
Jul 22, 2016 - 14:46
simple
Hi, I want to create a button that launches the camera (...and saves the photo in the next step). Somehow whenever I press the button with `...
Jul 22, 2016 - 10:25
cook
I want to set a color in objc... Not sure what it needs.
I'm working on UISlider...
This doesn't work:
`setThumbTintColor_(ui.parse_color(...
Jul 21, 2016 - 09:17
aronchi
I have a project with 3 files: a py source code, an input file and an output file. I need to copy those three files on the iPad to run that ...
Jul 20, 2016 - 14:37
le_re
It would be really cool to be able to edit and preview .ink files written using Inkle's scripting language.
https://github.com/inkle/ink
Jul 19, 2016 - 23:30
NoBetterName
I want to take a video and strip audio from it. I want to then glue the audio back on to the video.
1: How do I take a video? I assume thi...
Jul 19, 2016 - 17:22
ryanvanderbilt
Hi - over the last week I've had issues with updates to taskpaper files syncing via dropbox. I'm using taskpaper 3.3.2.
* Updates made in...
Jul 19, 2016 - 11:08
newtoonie
When typing "from [module] import *" it alerts "cannot import name scanner"
This happens with any file including the examples included in t...
Jul 19, 2016 - 10:06
cook
Hey Everyone... This is just a question about best approach to set attributes for views in a class.
The problem: passing keyword arguments ...
Jul 19, 2016 - 08:33
zaino77
Hi people,
I love Pythonista, but since I need sklearn I ended up running a Jupyter Notebook server on my MacBook so I can program from my i...
Jul 19, 2016 - 08:21
Webmaster4o
*I'm Convinced That `ui` Was Deliberately Designed to be Unhackable: the Rant.* 😛
### I. ProxyTypes is cool (and old)
Today I started usin...
Jul 18, 2016 - 23:10
lschweitzer
Hi,
I experience this problem on my iPad running iOS 9.3.2 using the latest Pythonista 2:
* I create a new empty script
* I then type in thi...
Jul 18, 2016 - 15:11
myor
In iPad I can toggle the extended keyboard, so it is visible or not on top of the ordinary keyboard. But I cannot find similar setting for i...
Jul 18, 2016 - 07:40
cook
This is a wrapper for `ui.Slider()` that shows a label above the slider thumb with the current value (it slides along). Here are some featur...
Jul 16, 2016 - 21:51
Josephmaxwell
It would be perfect if Editorial were designed to sync with Google Drive or Spideroak. Personally, I HATE dropbox and will never use it agai...
Jul 16, 2016 - 18:29
Wingcoder
I am new to Markdown having written my book in MS Word. Consequently I've only used single paragraph spacing. With Markdown you need two bla...
Jul 16, 2016 - 18:18
Webmaster4o
If I wanted to create new `ui.View` subclasses for Objective-C `UIView` classes, like many of the built-in classes do, what's involved?
Jul 16, 2016 - 17:23
momorprods
Greetings,
Long time no see, I've been playing around with the new Pythonista 3 and my old projects.
One of them - basicaly an UI app whic...
Jul 16, 2016 - 16:59
lukaskollmer
Is this a problem with my setup?
How can I fix this?
Jul 15, 2016 - 19:58
p_atrick
I am making a dumb little program to learn how to use Pythonista. I am trying to something that changes the text/image when you tap the forw...
Jul 15, 2016 - 17:43
tomtomtong
I have downloaded PythonistaAppTemplate from Github. I have deleted all unnecessary python scripts for my project. But I find that the Pyth...
Would it be possible to have a setting where we could define a particular script to run when Pythonista 3 is chosen in the sharing extension...
Jul 15, 2016 - 06:47
lukaskollmer
Just a simple question: does anyone know when `pythonista-startup` is called in the application lifecycle?
I'm trying to swizzle some appli...
Jul 14, 2016 - 21:56
Oscar
I was wondering about the current state of OpenGL/GLES/GLKit support for Pythonista (3). Between numpy and objc_util I guess the possibiliti...
Jul 13, 2016 - 16:43
longjie0723
Hi,
I want to specify options to CIDetector. Which is the correct way? (or both incorrect?)
```
options = {'CIDetectorAccuracy': 'CIDetecto...
Jul 13, 2016 - 03:15
trinsic
Im really struggling with a pgp solution to encrypt markdown files so I can send them using my own tools. Does anyone know if anyway to make...
Jul 13, 2016 - 03:07
trinsic
I notice that when I create a table in editorial with markdown the table is rendered *centered*. is there a way to change this? Most markdow...
Jul 13, 2016 - 02:19
trinsic
im attempting to create a table with a caption, the table renders, but not the caption:
```
header1 | header2 |
------- | ------- |
cell1 ...
Jul 12, 2016 - 18:54
lukaskollmer
Hi!
I wrote [this script](https://github.com/lukaskollmer/pythonista-scripts/blob/master/System-Console/get_system_console.py) to access th...
Jul 12, 2016 - 09:48
robopu
simple question. i wrote a script in editorial console and it works fine there. pasted it to pythonista and it runs when i hit the play bu...
Jul 12, 2016 - 01:05
p_atrick
I new to Python/Pythonista, and I am wondering if it would be possible to have a UI to launch something I did in matplotlib. I want to be ab...
Jul 11, 2016 - 15:25
amdescombes
Hello everyone,
I'd like to write an app to do tone generation in real time and I know the way to do it without glitches would be through C...
Jul 10, 2016 - 22:03
skaboy71
Hey there guys ... I'm a noob on both Python and pythonista. Is there a step by step I can follow that will allow me to connect to MySQL ext...
Jul 10, 2016 - 21:23
skrohmer
Hello Pythonista friends,
Me again ;-) with a simple question which could not be answered by the documentation: Is there any kind of useabl...
Jul 10, 2016 - 19:38
tengl
Hi,
I'm new to Pythonista (and not exactly savvy with Python). Is there a way to sync everything with Dropbox, as there is in Editorial?
S...
Jul 10, 2016 - 15:40
skrohmer
Hi,
Does anyone have an sharing extension running successfully which receives arguments at the call? I don't even get the simplest program ...