Python 101 – An Intro to Working with INI files Using configparser

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Many programs require configuration. Most have a default configuration and many allow the user to adjust that configuration. There are many different types of configuration files. Some use text files while others use databases. Python has a standard library called configparser that you can use to work with Microsoft Windows INI files. In this tutorial, […]

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Textual – How to Add Widgets to a Container

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Textual is an excellent Python package for creating beautiful user interfaces in your terminal. By default, Textual will arrange your widgets starting at the top of the screen and appending them in a vertically oriented stack. Each GUI or TUI toolkit provides a way to lay out your widgets. Textual is no different in this

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Textual – Switching Screens in Your Terminal

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The Screen is a container for your widgets. These screens occupy the dimensions of your terminal by default. While you can have many different screens in a single application, only one screen may be active at a time. When you create your App class, Textual will create a screen object implicitly. Yes, Textual requires you to have at

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An Intro to pre-commit

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You can use many great tools to help you in your software development journey. One such tool is pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. You use pre-commit to run one or more tools before allowing you to commit your code locally. For example, you might run the Flake8 linter or the Ruff formatter

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JupyterLab 101 Book is Now Available

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JupyterLab, the latest iteration of the Jupyter Notebook, is a versatile tool that empowers you to share your code in an easily understandable format. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Jupyter Notebooks or variations of the Notebook architecture for any or all of the following: teaching presentations learning a computer language numerical

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How to Debug Your Textual Application

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Textual is a great Python package for creating a lightweight, powerful, text-based user interface. That means you can create a GUI in your terminal with Python without learning curses! But what happens when you encounter some problems that require debugging your application? A TUI takes over your terminal, which means you cannot see anything from

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ANN – The textual-cogs Package – Creating Reusable Dialogs for Textual

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Textual-cogs is a collection of Textual dialogs that you can use in your Textual application. You can see a quick demo of the dialogs below: Dialogs included so far: Generic MessageDialog – shows messages to the user SaveFileDialog – gives the user a way to select a location to save a file SingleChoiceDialog – gives the user a series

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Textual – The New MaskedInput Widget

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Textual v0.80.0 was released today, and it included the brand-new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer provides when instantiating the widget. Let’s spend

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