Some people don't realize this, but there are a lot of free books about the Python programming language. Yes, some of them aren't that great, but there's a lot of really good resources out here that are free. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the free books and other resources you […]
The other day, I heard that when we transfer some of our scripts to our batch farm, we cannot transfer sub-folders. So if I have a directory structure like the following, it needs to be flattened: Top --> data --> font --> images Instead of having sub-folders for my fonts, images, etc, I would need […]
I sometimes run into situations where it would be nice to have one of my Python scripts communicate with another of my Python scripts. For example, I might want to send a message from a command-line script that runs in the background to my wxPython GUI that's running on the same machine. I had heard […]
I wrote an article on this topic several years ago, but I think it is time for me to revisit it. Why? Well, lately I've been doing a lot of work on a program for sending emails and I've been looking at my old article and thinking I missed a few things when I first […]
If you have followed this blog for a while, you may remember that we've covered several XML parsing libraries that are included with Python. In this article, we'll be continuing that series by taking a quick look at the ElementTree library. You will learn how to create an XML file, edit XML and parse the […]
When I was a kid, I was really into secret codes and ciphers. I thought they were all kinds of fun. My mom thought it would be fun to use some of the ciphers I was so enamored with in treasure hunts for special occasions, like birthdays. She would take something like a Cryptograph Wheel […]
