Forum Archive
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Pythonista (and Editorial) between 2012 and 2022. The Pythonista forum is now hosted on GitHub:
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Jan 16, 2016 - 15:58
disorientedp
Is it possible to make notifications sent interactive? I'm assuming *no*, but I wanted to ask to make sure.
Jan 16, 2016 - 11:42
Sandbo
Hello, I just bought Pythonista and I am very happy to see my codes (mainly numerical computation) runs pretty well on it.
However, as I am ...
Jan 16, 2016 - 09:36
JonB
```
[x for x in dir(ObjCClass('PAMoveFilesViewController').alloc().init()) if x.startswith('at')]
```
I am sure there is an interesting st...
Jan 16, 2016 - 05:54
dmkanter
I'm trying to call the cu module to scan for my light blue bean to grab temp data from it. Curious if anyone had any luck seeing it?
Thanks...
Jan 16, 2016 - 03:42
Webmaster4o
This is a quick utility I put together with about an hour. Thanks to @filippocld for the app badge discovery. It's a basic system by which t...
Jan 16, 2016 - 00:28
Kluesi
Hi
After the last update of Pythonista i get a white image. The image file exists.
I have this code in setup()
self.aImage=load_image_file...
Jan 16, 2016 - 00:01
throckmy
In Dark Theme I am getting white text in white boxes, which is unusable. Without the Dark Theme my eyes are fatigued and so, until this bug ...
Jan 15, 2016 - 19:05
roosterboy
Playing around with the new version of Pythonista, I tried out the ObjC example script Music Stats.py. But when I run that script, I get an ...
Jan 15, 2016 - 15:23
spinmaster
Hi All.
I'm loving the new 2.0 update.
I'm trying to get my head around how the UI module handles redraws / screen updates.
I'm trying t...
Jan 15, 2016 - 09:32
Phuket2
Look, I know this is not Facebook. But given the types of users I have seen here thought this might be of particular interest to a lot of yo...
Jan 15, 2016 - 06:13
stevegio
I'm curious to know if anyone has been able successfully install boto3 with StaSH. Did a bunch of searches and didn't turn up much informati...
Jan 15, 2016 - 03:07
disorientedp
Pythonista 2.0
I am new to the ui module. I've been messing around with it and I've figured out basically how to create user interfaces, bu...
Jan 15, 2016 - 00:27
mcfetz
Hi all,
Isn't it possible to call my python script from a notification schedule with a callback url or is there a bug in the app?
This cur...
Jan 14, 2016 - 20:58
jpotrebic
I'm working on a space shooter game and I can't figure out how to get the 'enemy' spaceship to wrap around to the other side of the screen. ...
Jan 14, 2016 - 13:30
Balur
I don't have any bluetooth keyboard yet. I'd like to get one.
After a quick google search, Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard popped up a ...
Jan 14, 2016 - 13:10
Phuket2
Jan 14, 2016 - 12:22
Balur
Just a little thing I know, but...
Is it possible to mute top keys and code completion sounds without poke the vibrate switch?
Jan 14, 2016 - 11:45
Balur
Hi there,
I wonder how do you guys sync your files between devices?
I'm actually using freekrai's [DropboxSync.py](https://gist.github.com...
Jan 14, 2016 - 10:06
JonB
https://gist.github.com/c9f42c81c53b276b6560
I stumbled across the NSUserDefaults (omz had used it for the theme editor) and noticed editor ...
https://github.com/mshang/python-elevator-challenge
Jan 13, 2016 - 19:59
coomlata1
Pythonista 1.5 came with a 'Convert Indentation' action at the top of the action menu. I don't see a similar tool in the Pythonista 2.0. P...
Jan 13, 2016 - 18:14
Tornadoowl
I'm trying to use pythonista to do something like
```
print('abc\b123')
```
To output
```
ab123
```
But when I try it in app all I get is
`...
I must have inadvertently deleted the appex script. Is there a way to get it back without re-installing Pythonista? Is it online somewhere t...
Jan 13, 2016 - 13:02
Balur
Hi Guys,
I'm new here and new to Python language also.
Is there any working way to get console width in Pythonista? I mean in character cou...
Jan 12, 2016 - 23:36
gertie
`console.set_color()` takes r, g, b values, however prior to the 2.0 update (whether by design or through oversight) leaving the call parame...
Jan 12, 2016 - 21:58
gregr
Is there any way to restrict access to the keychain with Touch ID? I know this was mentioned a while back, but I didn't see anything definit...
Jan 12, 2016 - 21:08
CarlRJ
Im having fun poking around the v2.0 release of Pythonista... I could have sworn it initially opened on my iPad with the Welcome(dot)md file...
Jan 12, 2016 - 17:47
scj643
An IRC Channel would be nice to provide help and to talk.
Jan 12, 2016 - 16:49
Croc
I would like to code a fully functional Twitter retweet bot or something similar from within Pythonista, but I want to know if it is even po...
Jan 12, 2016 - 13:48
Phuket2
```
class TVView(ui.View):
def __init__(self, data, *args, **kwargs):
ui.View.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
```
Is there some trick to ...
Jan 12, 2016 - 08:57
upwart
I have noticed that in the extended keyboard without numbers both the > and # characters are missing.
And in the extended keboard with numbe...
If your script does `view.present('sheet')` you might find that your view is too small in Pythonista v2.
One possible fix would be to size ...
Jan 12, 2016 - 06:24
ywangd
[StaSh](https://github.com/ywangd/stash) v0.5.0 is formally ready for Pythonista 2.0 and it is recommended to upgrade whether you are on `v0...
Jan 12, 2016 - 02:30
Webmaster4o
First of all, great job with 2.0, it's a great update, and everything I expected.
I don't know if you're planning to work on an editorial ...
Jan 12, 2016 - 01:47
Richard
Hi,
Thanks for the brilliant Pythonista 2.0, the appex and dialogs module are awesome.
After playing with them for a while, I found returni...
Jan 12, 2016 - 00:22
[deleted]
Simple extension to save attachment
Save.py
```python
# coding: utf-8
import appex, os, console
def save():
if appex.is_running_extens...
Jan 12, 2016 - 00:09
SoftwaveStudios
I am new to Pythonista, having got it the other day. After the 2.0 update I've noticed that I can't seem to snap a button (or other control)...
Jan 12, 2016 - 00:00
rolly
Congratulations to Omz Pythonista's for the new edition 2.0 with many useful new features. My only problem is that while before the update I...
Jan 11, 2016 - 22:10
pythonista72
Hi,
just read about 2.0 release, great! :-)
But one question. How can I install something like Scapy?
http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy...
Jan 11, 2016 - 20:20
Khadgar1
Sorry for my bad english but I need an information.
I have update my Pythonista version now. If I want export to Xcode for compile for App ...
Jan 11, 2016 - 19:59
pacco
Hi all,
Pythonista 2.0 has finally arrived and there is much rejoicing!
For me, Pythonista was initially a quick and easy way to become m...
Jan 11, 2016 - 13:11
Phuket2
This is a simple error to make I think. I added a btn to a label as a subview. For the life of me, I could not get the button to call it's a...
Jan 10, 2016 - 17:38
Webmaster4o
The console prompt seems to have a dark grey caret. It's fine for the included themes, but almost impossible to see in my custom theme. Ther...
Jan 10, 2016 - 16:47
Phuket2
(Context for this post, is loading a pyui file into a class, hence creating a custom class (ui.View) with the pyui becoming the root of the...
Good news: Pythonista 2 has been approved by Apple, and will be out on Monday (tomorrow).
I would recommend that all beta users do a [backu...
Is anyone willing to do a bit of Spirograph hacking? http://www.eddaardvark.co.uk/python_patterns/spirograph.html has some nice images that...
Jan 09, 2016 - 02:37
echen
I am just starting to experiment with scenes and I have a question. I have drawn a complex shape (e.g. a car) using lines, rects and ellips...
Jan 08, 2016 - 16:24
Phuket2
@omz , maybe graphical trace back is not the right terminology. But, it would be nice if it had a fold out btn/icon '>'. Maybe a little extr...
Jan 08, 2016 - 14:14
donnieh
I want to use a``` ui.webview() ```to show an image instead of using a``` ui.imageview() ```(for the purposes of playing .gif animations).
...
Jan 08, 2016 - 12:06
openmedi
I'm looking for a way to count characters in my documents that excludes spaces. I checked the workflow directory, but couldn't find anything...