I was reading Hynek Schlawack's excellent article on becoming a Python core developer and decided to find out just how hard it would be to get set up on my machine so that I could be ready to do core development myself, should I ever get the honor of being a part of the team. […]
The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of course, I wanted to do it all with Python, so after a little looking, I came across 3 candidates: python-qrcode on github pyqrcode on sourceforge and pyqrnative on Google […]
I recently bought Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers by Mark Roseman from Amazon and just finished it yesterday. I think it's pretty new, but I can't find the release date for it now. Anyway, let's get on with the review! Quick Review Why I picked it up: I bought this book because I'd been […]
After reviewing a couple ebooks last week, I've been getting asked to write reviews for several other authors. I even got an offer to write Python book reviews for another website too! Crazy. Anyway, Frederic Lepied contacted me today to review his eBook, which is available on Amazon. He sent it to me as an […]
An appropriate alternate title would be: How to control a web page or test your website with Python. Recently, I was given the following assignment: 1) Login to a website 2) click on a toolbar and load a specific search form 3) enter some data into one of the fields on the form and search […]
I keep seeing people asking about how to add or remove widgets after they've already started their wxPython application. This is actually something that's really easy to do, so I decided it was time to write a simple tutorial on the subject. I have had to do this myself from time to time depending on […]
