The Mouse Vs. The Python

Everyone who uses computers regularly knows that they can copy and paste text. What they might not know is that when you copy something, it goes into a location known as the “clipboard”. Most programs provide access to a clipboard of some sort, whether it be just within the program itself or to the system clipboard, which allows items to be copied to other applications. The wxPython GUI toolkit also provides clipboard access, which you can use to copy text to and from within your program and even to the system clipboard. You can also copy images to the clipboard. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how you can do this in your own code. (more…)

I haven’t done a weekly round-up of Python links because no one seemed to really care when I was doing those. However I thought I’d give it one more try and see if there was any interest this time around. This past week, I finished reading my first web2py cookbook. I’m told there’s another book too, but I haven’t checked it out yet. I suspect had I read the other one first, the cookbook would have made more sense. If you’ve been a regular reader of this site, you’ll notice I’ve done several other book reviews the last couple of weeks too. Speaking of reading, here are just a few of the articles that stuck out to me this week:

• Logsna – a sane log output format (Ruslan Spivak’s blog)
• Python.org Redesign Request For Proposals (Jesse Noller)
• What Generators are for (Simeon Franklin)
• Recent Windows Changes in Python 3.3
• I think it’s exciting that there’s now an RFP out for a redesign of the Python website
• Nick Coghlan had a pretty interesting article about all the resources there are now for deployment, docs and testing

I don’t want to overload you on links and I know this one is older, but I have been really interesting in following Katie C’s gaming adventures. So I’ll leave you on that note. I hope you enjoy the articles as much as I did.

I have read about web2py on several occasions, but never used it myself. Then a few weeks ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me about reviewing their new cookbook about web2py. It’s written by seven authors, namely: Richard Gordon, Pablo Martin Mulone, Mariano Reingart, Bruno Cezar Rocha, Massimo Di Pierro, Michele Comitini and Jonathan Lundell. I have to admit that I wondered how you could have a coherent book with so many authors, but since it’s a cookbook, it works out pretty well. (more…)