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May 31, 2016 - 15:30
ronjeffries
Hi, new member, old programmer. Just starting with Pythonista (and Python). I need to write a very simple web service kind of thing for Goog...
May 31, 2016 - 07:57
Subject22
Table cell detail labels are read only, and it doesn't seem possible to adjust them the same way we can cell titles (`TableViewCell.text_lab...
May 31, 2016 - 06:38
Subject22
If I have a bunch of views defined in .pyui files is it possible for me to reuse these to build more complex views?
I see that in the inter...
May 31, 2016 - 04:30
camfrout
Hi everyone,
I read in the doc and on the forum that text fields have an action attached to them. When I looked in the UI editor, I don't s...
May 30, 2016 - 02:13
heyguy4
I have a sprite called spriteName. Whenever I type something like.
```
self.spriteName.texture = ('plc:Gem_Blue')
```
or import my own imag...
May 30, 2016 - 00:59
heyguy4
Why is line 19 from my code a syntax error, when it is just 3 apostrophes at the bottom of a comment.
Here's my code BTW. It's an unfinishe...
May 30, 2016 - 00:55
heyguy4
```
# coding: utf-8
from scene import *
import photos
import sound
import ui
import random
import math
A = Action
class MyScene (Scene):
...
https://github.com/cclauss/fractal_hacks/blob/master/cc_mandelbrot.py
On my MacBook Pro takes ~14 sec in Python2 and ~17 sec in Python3.
O...
May 29, 2016 - 10:25
Kamozo
Hello, why won't "repmo" repeat itself?
I would like the action to continuously run after "phase_1", yet it only runs once. How do I fix thi...
May 29, 2016 - 07:14
daveterry
Not sure how to explain this bug (?). When I run a series of python scripts within Editorial and then try to set a variable I get content fr...
May 29, 2016 - 01:21
Tizzy
`import rauth` does not work in beta 300015. I believe it worked in the previous build, although I'm not sure. It definitely does work in Py...
May 28, 2016 - 16:29
Phuket2
@omz, the latest Pythonista beta 3, is great. The convert tabs , the snippets , the color entry. They can seem like small things. I am sure ...
May 27, 2016 - 02:01
dat2357
How do I access a script that is placed in a folder that I created? Are all the files placed in recent?
May 25, 2016 - 08:27
ywangd
**Beta 300014**
mmap module is available for Python 3 but **NOT available in Python 2**
A fix will be appreciated. Thanks!
May 25, 2016 - 08:08
jedamus
Is there a way to include german language to supported languages , so I can say
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')
Tha...
May 25, 2016 - 00:41
VIC3
I'm making something in pythonista to control the brightness and the color of it (like a f.lux thing) is it possible to do this. I got the b...
May 24, 2016 - 23:47
scottcoulter
I normally don't ask the Internet to fix my stuff, but I am at a loss this time
This *used* to work in Editorial, but now it hasn't for a n...
May 24, 2016 - 22:21
dat2357
Is there a way to import an image from the camera roll into the Pythonista documents folder?
May 24, 2016 - 18:36
GospelTheGrey
Hello, I m new to Pythonista but not new to programming. I want to extract URLs from an RTF object I pasted to the clipboard. How, do I ge...
May 24, 2016 - 17:57
Phuket2
This is sort of nothing. I had assumed that the notification.schedule message param would be very limited in length. I was just fooling arou...
May 24, 2016 - 16:41
Power1
Aktualnie do naszej firmy Power Media S.A., która mieści się we Wrocławiu, poszukujemy Web-Developera (Python Developera). Przygotowujemy ap...
May 24, 2016 - 15:36
flip
Curious as to how configurable the editor is. I'm using an iPad Pro + the apple smart keyboard and would love to make various emacs-y things...
May 24, 2016 - 13:34
BinaryBenAU
Is there any support for using Texpad to build LaTeX documents?
Otherwise, how do I go about requesting a feature?
There is an API here if...
May 24, 2016 - 12:35
Phuket2
I can't remember long ago when I was dealing with macs graphics how stroking a object was handled.
**But I see by default Pythonista splits ...
May 24, 2016 - 04:50
flip
I have an application that generates a 'Data' folder with experimental output. At some point I figure I should write an uploader to stash t...
May 24, 2016 - 04:05
glyph
The "particles" demo is a great show piece to illustrate that Python is totally capable of smooth, real-time animation. But today when I wa...
May 23, 2016 - 21:38
brumm
[ShapeRender](https://github.com/humberry/ShapeRender/) still in progress...
May 23, 2016 - 20:28
lukaskollmer
Is there a way to edit the file templates?
I know that I can add custom templates using the Templates folder, but I'd like to automatically...
It should be relatively easy to implement (?) but I would like to have more fonts available in Settings/Editor, Markdown/Text Font.
More sp...
May 23, 2016 - 10:35
jedamus
Is there a way to use TextExpander in Pythonista on iOS?
May 22, 2016 - 17:32
Phuket2
@omz, look really, I think your documentation is really good. However the examples could be better. I would say a lot of the examples are n...
May 22, 2016 - 15:16
lukaskollmer
Recently, the question came up how to get memory statistics.
I found an Objective-C [example on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/a/85...
May 22, 2016 - 14:36
dendrites
IMHO it would be cool if you could assign the strike-out not only to @done, but, like colors, also to other tags.
May 21, 2016 - 13:35
[deleted]
I have been playing around with the *objc_util* module in order to retrieve information about the various photo albums that are defined in t...
May 20, 2016 - 18:50
GARP
Hi everybody,
Does anyone here has experience with building dashboards in Pythonista? What modules, methods, ways to go would you advise. L...
May 20, 2016 - 16:48
JonB
@omz, In the latest beta, when running stash, if one switches to the console and types anything, all stash output gets sent to the console i...
May 20, 2016 - 07:38
craftmojo
I manage to download the latest matplotlib 1.5.1 using pipista. However, I dont know how to replace current matplotlib (1.3) and using it in...
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360a1/
Now that Python 3.6 is in alpha, it will be cool to start playing with `f-strings`. ...
If not, will Pythonista support it in the future?
Thanks
May 18, 2016 - 09:41
Phuket2
*New Randon Number Generator*
This article just seemed relevant to post here given some of the discussions about encryption etc that have be...
May 17, 2016 - 20:07
Kamozo
Hello, I've got a problem.
I've recently been learning how to use Actions in the scene module, and I feel like the way I'm going about it is...
May 17, 2016 - 10:19
Phuket2
Just I case you haven't seen it, the update released today is bricking IPad Pros (apparently both models) , attaching to iTunes does not fix...
May 17, 2016 - 01:51
AtomBombed
I am making a highlighter app. It stores everything you've highlighted, and what file you've highlighted it from.
I have a problem, however...
May 15, 2016 - 18:58
miou1974
https://github.com/mi0u/Mip
Check it out
May 15, 2016 - 17:45
Phuket2
Like every thing else, this is not my strong suit. **I would just like to render/draw the built in images as @omz does with a tint_color**
...
May 15, 2016 - 04:51
Mr.Code
Anyone have any idea on how to create a .mobileconfig/profile on Pythonista. Any help?
May 14, 2016 - 15:02
Phuket2
I am sure asked this question before in different ways. But I don't think exactly this way.
I want threading, but threading for dummies. I ...
May 14, 2016 - 12:07
camfrout
Hi everyone,
I am trying to set up a connection to a https website using requests with the following:
```
import requests
...
requests.get...
May 14, 2016 - 09:02
JonB
two issues:
1) when using on_main_thread to decorate an objc method, create_objc_class thinks there are no arguments. I think @dgelessus ha...
May 13, 2016 - 17:50
JonB
Just a cautionary tale : I swizzled tableView_heightForRowAtIndexPath to allow variable sized table view cells. the return type is CGFloat...