A couple years ago I wrote a rather flawed tutorial about SQLAlchemy. I decided it was about time for me to re-do that tutorial from scratch and hopefully do a better job of it this time around. Since I'm a music nut, we'll be creating a simple database to store album information. A database isn't […]
Recently I needed the ability to use Reportlab's flowables, but place them in fixed locations. Some of you are probably wondering why I would want to do that. The nice thing about flowables, like the Paragraph, is that they're easily styled. If I could bold something or center something AND put it in a fixed […]
The other day I saw a question on StackOverflow about how to dynamically destroy and create panels after a certain amount of time has passed. I told the fellow that he could use the examples from one of my blog articles where I destroyed and created buttons, but the dude just didn't get it. So […]
I meant to write up a post on this within a week of reading about it, but then things got busy and I forgot. Anyway, there's a new widget in the wxPython toolkit called the ShortcutEditor. You can read about it on the wxPython mailing list. You'll probably have to update the agw lib folder […]
Most computer users of this day and age use drag and drop (DnD) instinctively. You probably used it to transfer some files from one folder to another this week! The wxPython GUI toolkit provides drag and drop functionality baked in. In this tutorial, we'll see just how easy it is to implement!
The other day I was asked if there was a way to sort a dictionary by value. If you use Python regularly, then you know that the dictionary data structure is by definition an unsorted mapping type. Some would define a dict as a hash table. Regardless, I needed a way to sort a nested […]
