Book Review: Python Multimedia Application Beginner’s Guide
Python Multimedia Application Beginner’s Guide By Ninad Sathaye Amazon Packt
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How to Find and List All Running Processes with Python
The other day, I was tasked with finding a way to get a list of all running processes on a Windows XP virtual machine. I was also supposed to include information about how much CPU and memory each process used. Fortunately, this didn’t have to be a remote script, but one that could be run
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wxPython: PyPlot – Graphs with Python
Some people learn through doing it, others are better with visual stimuli. At least, that’s what we’re told. So in the spirit of what we’ve been taught, we’re going to take a look at the visual half of the equation and see how we can make graphs with wxPython. You may not know this, but
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You Could Speak at PyCon
Jesse Noller just put out the call for proposals for PyCon 2011. That means that you have the chance to give a talk to a whole bunch of geeky pythonistas! Get your thinking caps out and put those suckers on! If I go this year, I want to see some amazing and interesting talks so
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Contest: Create a Logo for My Blog!
I’ve been thinking that it would rock if this website had a cool logo or artwork of some sort. So I thought I would create a contest to allow my talented readers a chance to help me out here. Here’s what I’m looking for: Some kind of banner or background picture A mouse (the furry
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Book Preview: Python Graphics Cookbook
This week, I finished editing another book for Packt Publishing. The book’s name is Python Graphics Cookbook by Mike Ohlson de Fine (I think). You may wonder why I don’t know if de Fine is the author. Well, Packt thinks that its Technical Editors shouldn’t know that information. In fact, Packt is so cagey (and
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Reportlab Tables – Creating Tables in PDFs with Python
Back in March of this year, I wrote a simple tutorial on Reportlab, a handy 3rd party Python package that allows the developer to create PDFs programmatically. Recently, I received a request to cover how to do tables in Reportlab. Since my Reportlab article is so popular, I figured it was probably worth the trouble
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wxPython: A Simple Notebook Example
The other day, I received a complaint that my original notebook example in my Book control series was too complicated. I don’t really write just n00b-friendly articles and never claimed to, but this comment rankled, so I decided to write a super simple example for the wxPython newbies. I hope you like it!
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SqlAlchemy: Connecting to pre-existing databases
Accessing databases with Python is a simple process. Python even provides a sqlite database library that’s built into the main distribution (since 2.5). My favorite way to access databases with Python is to use the 3rd party package, SqlAlchemy. SqlAlchemy is an object-relational mapper (ORM), which means that it takes SQL constructs and makes them
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Getting Remote Drive Space on Windows
After about a year or so at my current job, as we were still working on upgrading the last few Windows 98 machines to Windows XP, we had a need to check which machines on our network were getting low on disk space. The issue was cropping up because we had Windows XP loaded on
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Python 101: How to Open a File or Program
When I began learning Python, one of the first things I needed to know how to do was open a file. Now, the term “open a file” can mean different things depending on the context. Sometimes it means to actually open the file with Python and read from it, like with a text file. Other
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Pyowa – September 2010 Wrap-Up
This is for all you Pyowa home-boys out there what missed our gathering. We don’t know why you homebodies didn’t come and hang out and talk shop wit us, but we think you really truly missed out on our phat gathering. We had around 10 real homies show up to hear the jibber jabber about
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Another GUI2Exe Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!
This is the last article of my “Build a Binary Series”. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out the others. For our finale, we are to look at Andrea Gavana’s wxPython-based GUI2Exe, a nice graphical user interface to py2exe, bbfreeze, cx_Freeze, PyInstaller and py2app. The latest release of GUI2Exe is 0.5.0,
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Book Review: Python 3 Object Oriented Programming
Python 3 Object Oriented Programming By Dusty Phillips Amazon Packt
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A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!
The bbfreeze package also allows us to create binaries, but only on Linux and Windows. It’s just an easy_install away, so if you plan on following along with the examples in the article, you should go get it. The bbfreeze package includes egg support, so it can include egg dependencies in your binary, unlike py2exe.
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