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Apr 11, 2016 - 00:51
Vertec
Assistance with saving app states.
I am new to Pythonista and Python - How would I write the values of switches and buttons to a file and re...
Apr 11, 2016 - 00:39
Omega0
I recently switched the key clicks sounds off in the iPhone settings and noticed that pythonista's code completion and extra keyboard row st...
Apr 10, 2016 - 19:31
jbap
How can I send an email with Apple mail through an app that I make?
I assume this will use the objc_util module...
Apr 10, 2016 - 17:57
Phuket2
Just if anyone is pondering about the next great thing they could write for Pythonista. I have a idea...
A view that simulates different har...
Hi all. I've been using Editorial for a bit, including writing and/or adapting some basic workflows, but this has be stymied.
I want to be...
Apr 10, 2016 - 13:59
Phuket2
@omz, started a new thread for this so not to pollute the Python 3.x ... Thread with pics.
But is a simple issue. The 2 betas look exactly...
Apr 10, 2016 - 10:40
LokiSharp
Error: module 'editor' has no attribute 'get_path'
Pythonista 3 300007
I wanted to delete my stash history and naively thought that if I cat /dev/null > .stash_history, that would do it. However, if I do that, t...
Apr 08, 2016 - 20:23
zoteca
Just purchased Pythonista and first thing I did was install Stash via the Pythonista Tools plugin so I presume I have the latest version. I ...
Apr 08, 2016 - 17:36
scj643
Just testing ifttt and RSS feeds.
Apr 08, 2016 - 16:03
jbap
I'm having a bit of ui trouble. I want to remove the X button from the top left corner of the ui screen. I know about the hide_title_bar arg...
Is it possible in Pythonista to get a word definition from the Apple standard language dictionaries?
Apr 08, 2016 - 04:18
wguyth
Hello forum. I am new to using Pythonista and the main reason for getting it was to be able to develop AWS Lambda functions from anywhere ...
Apr 08, 2016 - 02:02
soulbarn
Text files synced with a dropbox folder don't sort by date - they just seem to appear randomly in editorial. This is a pretty basic function...
Apr 07, 2016 - 23:07
alijnclarke
So I'm hoping I can use Editorial to create and then upload a post directly to the Ghost blogging platform.
Is this something that can be ...
Apr 07, 2016 - 20:59
scj643
The keychain module seems to be missing functionality. No way to set a master password, and deleting it doesn't requrie confirmation.
Apr 07, 2016 - 20:51
lukaskollmer
This morning I asked if it is possible to [use x-callback-urls with Pythonista](https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/3008/use-x-callback-url...
Apr 07, 2016 - 19:57
vcr80
Hy!
I'm reading data from a sqlite3 database and when I delete the TableViewCell I want to delete the corresponding row in the sqlite3 data...
Apr 07, 2016 - 19:05
Phuket2
Maybe I missed something so simple here. But I want to calculate the max size of a font given a rect. My solution is below. Is crap. I am su...
Apr 07, 2016 - 07:38
lukaskollmer
I don't know if this is technically possible, but I think its a great idea. There are many apps in the App Store that implement a concept of...
Apr 06, 2016 - 22:07
obtom
Hi,
I'm fairly new to Pythonista development and was struggling to get the contents of a webview to change when I click a button in my scri...
Apr 06, 2016 - 14:37
filippocld
I don't know how it can be used for, but is *theoretically* possible to create a new syntax mode like the python and javascript ones (OMPyth...
Apr 05, 2016 - 22:24
paulgottlieb
I'm a retired programmer and I'm new to python. My question is so simple it's embarrassing. I installed python on my desktop and I also inst...
Is there a way to generate an automatic fill of a web form and simulate the enter key for sites like http://webpagetopdf.com/ ?
Apr 05, 2016 - 11:41
Phuket2
This is for more the beginners like me. Below is a link to The PythonDecroratorLibrary. I haven't seen this before. I still have trouble ge...
Apr 05, 2016 - 05:14
Cethric
@omz I will look into this further but in Pythonista3 Parse Exceptions are raised with certain classes and functions on their generated enco...
Apr 04, 2016 - 21:41
alijnclarke
So I'm trying to access the functionality of an objective-c class,
The objective-c code i'm trying to replicate is:
```
NSArray *apps = [[L...
Apr 03, 2016 - 23:51
dgelessus
https://github.com/dgelessus/pythonista_startup
I'm a big fan of the `pythonista_startup` feature (thanks @omz!) and use it *a lot*. Mine g...
Apr 03, 2016 - 15:07
lukaskollmer
I just noticed that: When I launch Pythonista 3, the ``pythonista_startup.py`` file in the Pythonista 2 ``site-packages`` folder will be exe...
Apr 03, 2016 - 14:26
Phuket2
I still use
```
UIView.beginAnimations_(None)
UIView.setAnimationDuration_(0)
```
In the Pythonista startup. Something went a little crazy ...
Apr 03, 2016 - 11:30
lukaskollmer
I'm writing a script to backup all files in the ``~/Documents`` folder to [S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/).
Since the upload takes about 20...
Apr 03, 2016 - 09:27
fhvchh
Could you add iCloud Drive support just for local documents not for snippets or workflows?
@omz
Apr 01, 2016 - 16:59
jbap
Hello, I am looking to run separate Pythonista scripts from a qr code. I was using the url scheme, but realized that Pythonista couldn't clo...
Apr 01, 2016 - 14:33
scj643
Any way to generate a pkcs12 certificate in pythonista that ios can install to the device?
I try to "open in" OneNote, directly without passing by the "open in" menu.
I've found the URL-scheme for that. "onenote:URL of local file"....
Apr 01, 2016 - 06:37
SimCityWok
How is the best way to go about using an interactive (eg dragging one's finger on the screen) method to build entropy?
Why some web sites (ex: http://webpagetopdf.com/) are not displayed in ui.webview?
Mar 31, 2016 - 07:01
shacoof
I want to develop code that will be portable across different platform, is there a way of doing that?
Mar 31, 2016 - 04:18
cook
I'd appreciate a little help with getting my path stuff to work.
I have a workflow to make a PDF from my current document. What I want is t...
Mar 31, 2016 - 03:04
KHHKCh
I found out that some features of MultiMarkdown are not supported in Editorial, as well as a bug:
Bug:
- Within Code delimiter (```), `<>`...
Mar 31, 2016 - 02:20
KHHKCh
Editorial renders footnotes incorrectly if 2 footnotes are not separated by a linebreak. MWE:
```markdown
- test [^1]
- test [^2]
[^1]: ok...
Mar 31, 2016 - 02:16
nlecaude
I'm trying to get the Advertisement data as described here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreBluetooth/Reference/CB...
I download a pdf file via Safari and I "open it" with a Pythonista script, thus the script runs in Appex mode.
The script splits the PDF int...
Mar 30, 2016 - 11:01
cook
I just wanted to pass this along for those who are learning to code or even challenging for those who are more advanced. I know there are a ...
Mar 30, 2016 - 01:54
lsloan
When I choose Pythonista in the iOS share sheet, it shows the option "URL to QR Code", which references the program "`URL to QR Code.py`". W...
I download a pdf in Safari, then, on this pdf, I "open in" a Pythonista script that uses appex and receives a "get_url" as "file://...........