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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Jul 10, 2016 - 12:37
robopu
i finally broke down and bought pythonista 3. i cut my teeth in editorial python console and got an amazing amount done.
something that pi...
Jul 10, 2016 - 11:20
lukaskollmer
Following up on [my previous post from 2 months ago](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3150/customize-default-templates), I wrote a scrip...
At the end of a recent [Podcast.\_\_init\_\_](http://podcastinit.com/russell-keith-magee-beeware.html) episode about [BeeWare](http://pybee....
Jul 10, 2016 - 04:08
Zakilas
I'm new to Python and Pythonista, I have also taken the course "Learn Python the Hard Way." I'm not sure where to go to next, my goal is to ...
Jul 10, 2016 - 03:34
Webmaster4o
**Note:** This has been done before, but there were a few improvements I wanted to make to what had been done before.
This script is an edi...
Jul 09, 2016 - 21:36
cavgirl
For ages now I've been trying to find something that can do contents search across hundreds of text files in Dropbox, usually with the aim o...
**notification.get_scheduled()** gives an error "name message is not defined".
Checking notification.py shows that the get_schedule def use...
Jul 09, 2016 - 10:34
AtomBombed
I was messing around on a drawing app that I have earlier today, and thought to myself, "I bet I could make my own view for simplistic drawi...
Jul 09, 2016 - 09:43
adessler
I'm working on a countdown clock with two timers. Each timer has a button, and when the button is pushed, the associated timer starts (and ...
Jul 09, 2016 - 03:08
Webmaster4o
Can I draw on a `ui.View` with ObjC functions? `ui.ImageContext` doesn't have an `objc` counterpart. I'm specifically trying to use a `CASha...
Jul 09, 2016 - 02:23
Webmaster4o
Not sure whether this is directly Pythonista-related, but I'm having some trouble with `objc_util`. Code that appears to work elsewhere fail...
Jul 07, 2016 - 13:35
cerise
Hello guys ,
I am stuck with a problem and i cant find the solution on the Internet thats why i Come to you ...
I want to create a standal...
Jul 07, 2016 - 10:47
skrohmer
Hi there,
Please have a look at this app:
```
import ui
from scene import *
class MyScene(Scene):
def setup(self):
self.menu = ui.View...
Jul 07, 2016 - 07:54
Onyourbike
Hi,
My name is Robert Chappell. I am from London, UK. I am glad to be the part of the community. I like to say hello to all members.
Jul 06, 2016 - 09:15
amdescombes
Hi Everyone,
I have been using Pycharm to cleanup my pythonista code and DropboxSync to , the problem I have is it cannot resolve any of th...
Jul 06, 2016 - 07:43
skrohmer
Hi,
I'm struggling a bit with the WebView. See this code:
```
import ui
wv = ui.WebView()
wv.load_url('https://forum.omz-software.com')
w...
Jul 05, 2016 - 17:01
shaun-h
Now I just want to say I don't think this is a bug in pythonista.
I have a much larger "app" I'm working on in pythonista but for the probl...
Jul 05, 2016 - 16:42
dpp2000
Does anyone know if it's possible to use Django on Pythonista for iPad? And if it's possible, how can I get it?
Jul 05, 2016 - 08:25
amdescombes
Hello everyone,
Newbie question : I am trying to create an animation of a label moving like a pendulum. I tried using a SpriteLabel rotatin...
Jul 04, 2016 - 17:27
mako
Just curious if there's a docset available for download to use in Dash for Pythonista 3 ..
Thanks!
Jul 04, 2016 - 16:26
Phuket2
I am trying to draw a arc using add_arc to a ui.Path (). With the sample below I can draw a wedge, but I only want the arc drawn. I have tri...
Jul 03, 2016 - 09:01
happy_variable
Here is the subclass of SpriteNode
class Powerup(SpriteNode):
def __init__(name, duration, from_brick):
self.name = name
self.duration...
Jul 03, 2016 - 00:37
skrohmer
Hi,
I have created a Python file "ftpx.py" containing only one class which I want to use in several programs. I have stored the file in sit...
Jul 02, 2016 - 18:32
aw0L
Hi there,
Fresh purchaser of Editorial (and Pythonista!) here. Excited to check out these awesome-looking apps.
However, all my taskpape...
Jul 02, 2016 - 17:07
Oscar
I've looked but I can't find anything about this. Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the on screen printing in a Scene/SceneView?...
I use standard ftplib to access a NAS in FTP and my directories or files names could contain accents characters. In previous version of Pyth...
Jul 02, 2016 - 10:24
wnMark
A minor bug. It is in Pythonista 3 and also in the new beta 21100.
If you mark a text with "Highlight all" and the search line is available...
Jul 02, 2016 - 07:13
JonB
Not sure if this was always the case in pythonista 3, but wrench menu now seems to clear globals. I realize this is not a democracy, but I ...
Jul 01, 2016 - 23:50
william.gong
Hello everyone,
I encounter a problem when I am using APScheduler in pythonista.
It returned an error :
Documents/site-packages/apschedul...
Jul 01, 2016 - 09:29
skrohmer
Hi,
I'm playing with the motion functions right now because I want to create some kind of compass and spirit level app. Does anyone have an...
Jul 01, 2016 - 08:33
robopu
sorry. i've shunned the cloud for privacy reasons and am playing catchup trying to figure out how to use dropbox with editorial. i didn't ...
Jul 01, 2016 - 07:14
coomlata1
I would like to retrieve the filenames of photos from the iPhone camera roll. I can get the local id of a photo or collection of photos usi...
Among my regular Pythonista scripts I have an html2text folder with an `__init__.py`, but `import html2text` never uses it because `Pythonis...
Jun 30, 2016 - 13:12
Phuket2
@omz or others, is there a way to return a custom class rather than a TableViewCell to the tableview_cell_for_row method?
I have a test cla...
Jun 30, 2016 - 12:16
cook
Has anyone done this before? I thought that I saw someone post something about this during the pythonista 3 beta widget days... or something...
Jun 30, 2016 - 10:10
pedro
Maybe someone can reproduce this behaviour:
Create a simple python script (choosing "Empty script"). Add one line
import matplotlib as plt...
Jun 30, 2016 - 05:43
AtomBombed
I am seeing Notification Center demo programs in the `Examples` folder, but I cannot seem to find any way to actually add them to the Notifi...
Jun 29, 2016 - 19:04
robopu
so it took me awhile to get used to the editor in the editorial python console but i've learned to live with some shortcomings due to the po...
Jun 29, 2016 - 18:50
robopu
i'm wondering if anybody can tell me *specifically* why it is when i jump from editorial to another app and then back, editorial often feels...
Jun 29, 2016 - 18:42
robopu
i wasn't sure whether to put this in the pythonista forum but i've been working solely in the editorial python console so it's mostly a pyth...
Jun 29, 2016 - 18:03
happy_variable
How do you pause the class with object "Scene" or "SpriteNode" for a certain amount of time, while leaving other classes to work?
I am not ...
Jun 29, 2016 - 16:57
RomSpy
'''conn = sqlite3.connect('Logbook.db')
c = conn.cursor()
with open('backup.csv', 'w') as csvfile:
spamwriter = csv.writ...
Jun 29, 2016 - 16:52
ywangd
@omz
`ctypes.pythonapi` always points to the C API of Python **3** regardless of the default interpreter setting. Is there anyway to access...
Jun 29, 2016 - 16:19
mncfre
Hi, I'm trying to create a password-protected zip file but the python zipfile library only extracts files with password, you can not create ...
Jun 29, 2016 - 07:38
robopu
hi, i'm new to editorial having just bought it.
is there a way to structure my files and folders in editorial so that:
a) i only backup / ...
Jun 29, 2016 - 05:03
Ivoah
I spent part of today messing with the UI module, and ended up making an XKCD comic viewer. I may add more features to this in the future, b...
Jun 28, 2016 - 23:57
zencuke
I want to draw some simple mostly path based things so I decided to try canvas, For one reason or another I've never used it. I started with...
Jun 28, 2016 - 20:59
jrowling
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering whether to purchase the app - I"m looking for a way to control which wifi network my iPhone joins in different ci...
Could you, please, give me your opinion on this script?
You need to
- take a snapshot of your home screen
- import the photo in the same fo...
Jun 28, 2016 - 16:13
VIC3
Can anyone help me out with this error? [Gamma Error](http://m.imgur.com/xTp4tzz)