Everyone who uses computers regularly knows that they can copy and paste text. What they might not know is that when you copy something, it goes into a location known as the "clipboard". Most programs provide access to a clipboard of some sort, whether it be just within the program itself or to the system […]
I haven't done a weekly round-up of Python links because no one seemed to really care when I was doing those. However I thought I'd give it one more try and see if there was any interest this time around. This past week, I finished reading my first web2py cookbook. I'm told there's another book […]
I have read about web2py on several occasions, but never used it myself. Then a few weeks ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me about reviewing their new cookbook about web2py. It's written by seven authors, namely: Richard Gordon, Pablo Martin Mulone, Mariano Reingart, Bruno Cezar Rocha, Massimo Di Pierro, Michele Comitini and Jonathan […]
Robin Dunn, creator and mastermind behind wxPython, announced today on his blog and the wxPython-dev mailing list that he had gotten wxPython 2.9 (Phoenix) to build successfully for Python 3.2 on Mac. In fact, he posted a Quicktime video that shows the build and the tests running in Python 3! According to wxPython-dev, once they […]
I'm a little excited today as my first patch (and first ticket even!) has been accepted. And it really didn't take very long either. Less than 24 hours after I had submitted my first patch, I got my contribution added. I did have to submit to more variations of the patch though as my first […]
As I mentioned in my last article, I figured I'd try to find something that I could patch in Python and submit it. While writing the other article, I stumbled on a minor error in the Python devguide in the Windows section. While it's nowhere near as cool to patch a piece of documentation as […]
