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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 15:36
scj643
I'm thinking we should have a Mattermost or Slack server for real time collaboration.
Apr 27, 2016 - 15:32
scj643
Would it be possible to "Fake" oriontation by rotating the view so it faces the same direction it's set when presented.
Apr 27, 2016 - 15:29
scj643
I'm thinking once pythonista 3 launches their should be a bundle for pythonista 2 and 3 that shaves a couple dollars off the new app price,
Apr 27, 2016 - 12:07
simple
I want to send a URL from an extension to a document in Editorial.app. When I run the script in pythonista it works, but if I run it from th...
Apr 27, 2016 - 06:52
TutorialDoctor
**Is it plausible to store ui view .json data in an sqlite3 database?**
Some ideas I have for this are:
- Multiple views could be redistri...
Apr 27, 2016 - 02:37
MLBennett
Hi,
I just did an experiment with a PYTHONISTA script and it appears that a document's file creation timestamp is always being overwritten ...
Apr 26, 2016 - 23:41
shaun-h
Hi @omz the Pythonista beta 2 has 23 hours left just wondering if you were uploading a new version or should I backup my files and downgrade...
Apr 26, 2016 - 11:55
Phuket2
I went into the Kickstarter project today. Looks like it would be a fun thing to control with Pythonista and the cb module. Would have loved...
Apr 25, 2016 - 18:09
brumm
[ShapeFileRender](https://github.com/humberry/ShapeFileRender)
[Picture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/humberry/ShapeFileRender/master/...
Apr 25, 2016 - 14:50
jbap
Say I wanted to release a very simple game on the app store FOR FREE. This might be a bit ambiguous, but how would I add advertisements to i...
Apr 25, 2016 - 14:07
chriswilson
Hi all,
I have made a [game](https://github.com/chriswilson1982/black-white) (which I have posted about before) using the ```scene``` modul...
Is it possible to get the name of the app which starts a Pythonista script via the share extension (appex)?
I want to have only one script ...
Apr 25, 2016 - 13:52
chriswilson
Hi all,
I have made a [game](https://github.com/chriswilson1982/black-white) (which I have posted about before) using the ```scene``` modul...
I've a form_dialog with only 4 lines(fields).
Thus the free area is big enough to display an image.
How do I could define a PIL image in thi...
Apr 24, 2016 - 14:45
Phuket2
I am a young player (beginner). Just wanted timeshare a trap I feel into the other night.
I had a SQLite database of 72,000 people. All fak...
Apr 24, 2016 - 12:19
craftmojo
Today, I tried to code in pythonista for ios, everything seems okay. But, when I use maketrans method , it not working at all. What happened...
Apr 23, 2016 - 21:24
AtomBombed
Is there a way I can change individual text inside a TextView object? I want to make my own code/text editor. I want to implement syntax hig...
To manage my calendar on my iDevices, I've used the Apple standard Calendar app, then Calendar5 by Readdle because this one offers the copy/...
Title of **dialogs.date_dialog(title='title')** is not displayed...
Apr 23, 2016 - 06:59
JonB
On both beta versions, NavigationViews don't like being presented in a panel (closing the panel == crash)
```
v=ui.View(bg_color='red')
n=u...
Apr 22, 2016 - 14:17
Webmaster4o
I recently saw [this game](https://appsto.re/us/9eyabb.i), which presents a simple `scene`-like game in Notification Center, and it gave me ...
Apr 21, 2016 - 21:51
Tizzy
An interesting article which addresses whether having a fast programming language matters. Perhaps we could use this as a jumping off point ...
Apr 21, 2016 - 14:37
ccpalmer
THe preview of my markdown and multi markdown files uses a font for headings that have no lower case characters. I've changed the default f...
Is there a networking API available through Pythonista? Something to allow discovery of AP.
I try this short code but I get an error "no method found.......**saveEvent**", with or without the underscore.
Thanks to help me
```
# codi...
Apr 20, 2016 - 16:47
Phuket2
This is not important, but wondered if anyone has been able to access the iOS clock app API with objc Magic. I would love to be able to star...
Apr 19, 2016 - 10:53
Vertec
Is it possible to make a numeric entry field drive a slider position?
I have made a converter that converts feet to metres and also millis...
This is not my project, but [SnapSudoku](https://github.com/prajwalkr/SnapSudoku) is a really neat idea... Take a picture of a Sudoku puzzl...
Apr 17, 2016 - 13:59
Webmaster4o
The JSON spec supports the escaping of quotes with a backslash (`\`). From http://json.org/ :
> A string is a sequence of zero or more Unic...
Apr 17, 2016 - 10:24
JonB
@omz, is there any way to tell pythonista running on iPad to behave as if it was on iPhone?
for instance, if I change the size of the top le...
Apr 17, 2016 - 01:55
Webmaster4o
**Disclamer**: This is a pretty major feature request. So hold on.
# The Problem
The Pythonista forums are riddled with feature requests....
Apr 17, 2016 - 01:05
wcross
Searched across the forum and Google but no luck finding out how to do this.
Is it possible to find all photos in an iOS album or run throu...
Apr 17, 2016 - 01:01
chibill
I am having trouble using ScrollView I can't get it to actually scroll. I have the content size larger than the ScrollView size. But it refu...
Apr 16, 2016 - 18:36
donnieh
Before I go wild and write an algorithm to convert a number to engineering notation, is anyone aware of a simple way to achieve this?
How ...
Apr 16, 2016 - 14:31
Phuket2
Quite a while ago, I tried adding the forum feed to Flipboard. It was not great. Well, as far as I can remember it didn't work. I added it t...
Apr 15, 2016 - 19:00
Phuket2
@omz, maybe I am wrong, but I think you knew this question was going to catch up with you sometime or later.
I am talking about vertical ...
Apr 15, 2016 - 11:56
shaun-h
The Pythonista 3 thread is filling up so I decided to start a new one, I have some suggestions for the template folder.
It allows more than...
Apr 14, 2016 - 23:58
brookscl
I was working on a long article in a Dropbox synced folder in Editorial while on a plane today. When I connected to the network in my hotel ...
Apr 14, 2016 - 18:27
Phuket2
Just a function to draw text in a circle with some modifiers.
Nothing earth shattering about this. Is more food for thought for beginners li...
Apr 14, 2016 - 10:57
ashley
Hi,
I am using opencv in python. from the flow diagram, how can i draw a graph with no. of in/out edges and vertex.
This must be done in DS...
Thanks to @omz and @brumm for their help
```python
# coding: utf-8
from objc_util import *
import threading
import photos
import console
im...
I've received this mail from Dropbox, is that normal?
My app uses "from dropbox import client, rest, session"...
Thanks for your help
Hi,
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Is there a way to get the index(es) of the picked image(s)?
Thanks by advance
The Photos module allows to display (pick_image) or access (get_image) to photos in camera roll via an index.
Is it possible to define for ...
I want to select photos to be deleted, thus I use objective-c Assets.
To display photos so the user could select which ones to delete, I hav...
Apr 12, 2016 - 08:24
JonB
when indent is set to 3 spaces, if you acidentally add a space after the normal indents, backspace does not delete the extra space, but inst...
Apr 12, 2016 - 02:46
khilnani
(first post, great app and amazing community, learned a lot from everyone else's contributions. )
I'm noticing the path to the ~/Documents ...
Apr 11, 2016 - 15:27
gyronaut
I would like to read the raw gyroscope data via objc_util. Generally it seems to work. The problem is that the return value is a Object-C st...
Apr 11, 2016 - 03:42
shaun-h
I have been wanting to add new keycommands to pythonista so that I can navigate the ui with less touching of the screen, so this one is prob...
Apr 11, 2016 - 00:58
Vertec
How do I go about loading images into a pythonista ui from photo roll.
The purpose is just to have my own profile logo in the corner of my ...