This article will be about a topic that can be used across platforms, such as Linux, Windows and Mac.
This week I saw a question on StackOverflow about putting two grids into a SplitterWindow which itself was in a Notebook page. Personally I think that’s a little convoluted, but I thought it was an interesting challenge and I came up with a solution. Then the fellow wanted to know how to sync the scrolling […]
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Last night I received an email about a new Python-related Kickstarter. The Real Python crew added a new author to write a book entirely about Django 1.6. This is a subject that I keep meaning to get into and haven’t had the opportunity to do so. Hopefully by backing this project, I’ll finally learn Django.
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The other day I was working on a project where I was using the fabulous ObjectListView widget (a wrapper around wx.ListCtrl) and I wanted to add the ability to double-click an item in the control to make it open a PDF. I knew I had read somewhere on the internet about how do this sort
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Recently I was trying to figure out how to add tooltips to each item in an ObjectListView widget in wxPython on Windows. The wxPython wiki has an example that uses PyWin32, but I didn’t want to go that route. So I asked on the wxPython Google Group and got an interesting answer. They had actually
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Recently I’ve started learning about Kivy, a Python Natural User Interface (NUI) toolkit. As I understand it, Kivy is kind of a spiritual successor to pyMT, which you can read more about here. In this article, we will be learning how Kivy handles layout management. While you can position widgets using x/y coordinates, in every
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I like to use Wingware’s IDE for coding in Python. I am working through some sample applications with Kivy, a cross-platform Python GUI framework that can also create UIs for mobile. Anyway, getting Kivy set up in Wing is slightly confusing, so here’s a crash course: Download Kivy Unzip Kivy somewhere. In my case, I
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The other day, someone asked me if I could write a script that could cleanup a directory of all files that are greater than or equal to X number of days old. I ended up using Python’s core modules for this task. We will spend some time looking at one way to do this useful
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The wxPython Frame widget is used in almost all wxPython applications. It has the minimize, maximize and close buttons on it as well as the caption along the top that identifies the application. The wx.Frame allows you to modify its styles in such a way that you can remove or disable various buttons and features.
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Today we’ll be looking at how to acquire data from the popular movie site, Rotten Tomatoes. To follow along, you’ll want to sign up for an API key here. When you get your key, make a note of your usage limit, if there is one. You don’t want to do too many calls to their
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Today we will be looking at how to get the selected cells from a wxPython grid object. Most of the time, getting the section is easy, but when the user selects more then one cell, getting the selection becomes more complicated. We will need to create some sample code to show how all this fits
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This topic is actually more complicated then it first appears. In this article, we’ll spend a little time looking at this problem and some of the solutions.
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Configuration files are used by both users and programmers. They are usually used for storing your applications settings or even your operating system’s settings. Python’s core library includes a module called ConfigParser that you can use for creating and interacting with configuration files. We’ll spend a few minutes learning how it works in this article.
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The wxPython GUI toolkit comes with lots of widgets. We will be covering some widgets that are somewhat harder to get ones mind wrapped around. In this case, we will be talking about splitter windows. WxPython includes three types of splitter windows: wx.SplitterWindow fourwaysplitter which you can find in wx.lib.agw MultiSplitterWindow which you can find
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NOTE: This article is for wxPython 2.9-3.0. If you are using wxPython 4, you should go to my newer article Several years ago, I wrote a tutorial about wxPython 2.8 and its built-in pubsub module which you can read here. Back then, a new API for pubsub was added in wxPython 2.8.11.0 that could be
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Every now and then, I see someone wondering how to create a progress bar and update it. So I decided to whip up an example application that updates a progress bar (technically a wx.Gauge widget) from a thread. In this tutorial, we will create a frame with a button. When the button is pushed, it
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