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Jan 23, 2016 - 16:35
ExParrot
My scripts create graphs on canvas.
The canvas view screen no longer has the familiar export button! How do you export the full canvas (with...
Jan 23, 2016 - 06:38
iBayern
Let say that we have a file named 'a.txt' saved in goodreader app. Can we read this file from pythonista without importing it? Using "Dropbo...
Jan 23, 2016 - 00:23
AtomBombed
I am trying to make a web browsing application with the UI editor, and it is being really, really annoying. Every time I try to go to the "i...
Jan 23, 2016 - 00:15
AtomBombed
I was just bored, and I decided to make something using a new module. My choice: objc_util. So, here was what I ended up doing.
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# codin...
Jan 22, 2016 - 19:40
marcus67
I've got no clue what I did wrong: I tried to do some changes in existing pyui files. Some of them include buttons with images selected from...
Jan 22, 2016 - 16:54
laszlo.j.hermann
@JonB Hallo,
Problem with @JohnBs AVAudioRecodre Class under actual release
The https://github.com/jsbain/audiovis.git unfortunatly has a p...
Jan 22, 2016 - 16:24
donnieh
I am try to get all the "different" screen sizes for each iOS device but I either don't own the device or the simulator (using old Xcode tem...
Does anyone have a working diff utility (file compare) that will run under Stash?
Jan 22, 2016 - 14:49
blmacbeth
When initially opening Pythonista on my iPhone 6 and try to load ctypes from a script (or in the console) I get a `NotImplementedError`. I s...
Jan 21, 2016 - 17:25
donnieh
Is there a new template yet for Pythonista 2.0?
Jan 21, 2016 - 14:23
donnieh
I have not had luck importing gifs (on my iPhone 6+). On Pythonista 2.0, I press the + button and then choose "Import Photo...". It allows m...
Jan 21, 2016 - 13:27
robinson
Hi everyone
My name is Chris Robinson and I am a high school teacher.
I run a Python lunch time group and teach the basics of Python as we...
Jan 21, 2016 - 08:18
marcus67
I've been experimenting with url schemes a little bit. It works pretty well, for example, to open the app working copy and start its WebDAV ...
Jan 21, 2016 - 02:37
AtomBombed
Does anyone have an idea of how to make sprite collision detection using bbox or something like that to detect it? I have a sort of an idea,...
Jan 21, 2016 - 01:11
ejetzer
I've been trying to automate the export of Omnifocus tasks to Due, & for that I need to use Due's url scheme repeatedly in the script. You c...
Jan 20, 2016 - 23:54
disorientedp
@omz Is it still possible to sign up for the Pythonista beta? I sent a request a few weeks ago, but received no response.
Thanks!
Jan 20, 2016 - 18:13
disorientedp
@JonB I can't use gitview. Whenever I run gitui.py, I get a "KeyError: 'HEAD'" error.
Jan 20, 2016 - 12:38
Phuket2
@omz, this is not a big issue, and your solution probably was meant more as a hack than anything else. But I use the following in pythonista...
Jan 20, 2016 - 09:43
JonB
Is there a way to save or access the appex ScratchPad? It would be nice to save what I'm working on without copy/paste... I am guessing th...
Jan 20, 2016 - 08:30
JonB
i don't have a bluetooth kb to test this with, but I think this should now work:
https://github.com/jsbain/objc_hacks/blob/master/keycomman...
Jan 20, 2016 - 07:58
eddo888
please invert (make white) the console font with the dark theme
I was trying to get the python code formatter pep8 to run under stash but I get the error:
stash: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: signal on...
Jan 20, 2016 - 03:54
ajaygautam
When is the app being upgraded to Python 3?
Jan 19, 2016 - 22:59
dchevell
Hey guys
I'm finding that the version of paramiko supplied in Pythonista is not compatible with the current version of Mac OS X, and fails ...
Jan 19, 2016 - 21:17
GenericUser
Hello,
I would like to do some stuff with NavigationView, but I have problems of managing the view stack. I know the NavigationController f...
Jan 19, 2016 - 18:56
upwart
In my Scene project I need to draw a circle segment with a certain fill color. Unfortunately, ellipse() does not offer the possibility of a ...
Jan 19, 2016 - 17:36
KevinKarney
I have a UI datepicker object which shows today's date on starting the dialog. If it has been moved to a different date, can I reset it (wit...
Jan 19, 2016 - 13:57
shaun-h
I have found an issue with the dialogs module and I'm not sure why @omz you might be able to explain.
The code here is a simple example of ...
Jan 19, 2016 - 07:28
AtomBombed
Can someone tell me why I am getting an "UnboundLocalError" when the function is called? It's getting annoying because the error is being su...
Jan 19, 2016 - 05:10
Jonstieg
I'd like to select all the text in a text box whenever I tap on it and I just can't find any information on how to do it.
Is there a method...
Jan 19, 2016 - 02:01
catherine
I have tried and tried to turn this off in settings but it doesn't hold. As soon as I close the settings window it goes back to being on. Dr...
Jan 19, 2016 - 00:36
Webmaster4o
I just added a breif Pythonista section to my website. The new design on my website (moving away from Wordpress) is less than a month old, I...
Jan 18, 2016 - 18:45
nomadic_clover
Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to connect to the Instagram API in Pythonista. I'm just learning how the app works. There is a twitter libr...
Jan 18, 2016 - 15:31
Webmaster4o
When you search the docs, you can search for any term and find a page it's in. However, it's often the case that once you open the page, it'...
Jan 18, 2016 - 13:23
miou1974
Is it possible to have Greek letters in titles and legends of matplotlib? I have tried various methods without success
Jan 17, 2016 - 22:42
Kluesi
I take a new scene an add this lines. On my iPhone 6s I get three lines with the colors black, green and red. But only the black one looks g...
Jan 17, 2016 - 20:45
brumm
[PhotoTextV2](https://github.com/humberry/photo_text)
Thanks to donnieh and Webmaster40 for remembering me that there is a scale factor.
Jan 17, 2016 - 17:48
bennr01
Hello Pythonistas,
First i want to excuse my bad English (im not a native speaker).
I recently updated to Pythonista 2.0. While Pythonista ...
Jan 17, 2016 - 17:05
Webmaster4o
Following [this example](https://gist.github.com/steventroughtonsmith/ad7eda38c797dfddc394), I wanted to move the button to a different plac...
Jan 17, 2016 - 14:49
Webmaster4o
I thought I'd try to see what I could do with `objc_util` and `opencv2.framework`. I downloaded `opencv2.framework`, and tried to run this c...
Jan 17, 2016 - 13:35
KlMa
Hi
I am trying to use ssh from stash but receive the following:
StaSh v0.5.0
[~/Documents]$ ssh
pyte module not found.
StaSh ssh installing...
Jan 17, 2016 - 13:19
pedrohdz
Hey all,
I took the original [FileTransfer.py](https://gist.github.com/omz/3823483) from this post [A Simple HTTP Server](https://forum.omz-...
Jan 17, 2016 - 12:08
marcus67
The Pythonista tool gitsynchist...
Jan 17, 2016 - 01:07
AtomBombed
How do you use the ui.ListDataSource for the dialogs.list_dialog() popup? I am trying to make it so I can see what item has been deleted fro...
Jan 17, 2016 - 00:26
AtomBombed
I have been wondering for a very long time: "How do I define the end of a function in the console?"
Thanks for any answers.
Jan 16, 2016 - 21:56
brianolive
Hello all,
Somewhat new to python/pythonista - I read the relevant forum discussion regarding the use of NLTK from within Pythonista (https:...
Jan 16, 2016 - 21:16
Pepo
Hi
How could I use/dev an extension to get the source code (html/plain text) of a website where i'm browsing?
Regards
Jan 16, 2016 - 21:10
huub
Hi,
Although not at all new to programming, I am new to Python(ista). Let me state upfront that I am really impressed. There are only a few...
Jan 16, 2016 - 20:40
nealtz
After I upgraded to Pythonista 2.0 every script and even the console show the following error after the command "import pipista":
```
>>> i...
Jan 16, 2016 - 16:00
jaredbidlow
I get this error a lot in the new version of pythonista [imgur](http://i.imgur.com/CpJ3QbD.png)
Here is the code snippet
```
webbrowser.ope...