Recently, Andrea Gavana, developer of the agw library in the wxPython code base, released his newest widget: XLSGrid. It's purpose is to faithfully reproduce the appearance of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (one worksheet per every instance of XLSGrid). This widget is based on wx.grid.PyGridTableBase and wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer and requires xlrd. Andrea also recommends using Mark Hammond's […]
TurboGears is one of several web frameworks for Python that are available. The most popular by far is Django. Where I work, we chose TurboGears because of its integration with SQLAlchemy which supports composite keys. At that time, Django did not support that feature and I am not sure if it does yet. Anyway, I […]
PyCon 2012's website just went live today. They already have a bunch of sponsors and information about the conference on the website. Of course, they haven't done a call for speakers yet, so don't expect to find a list of talks or tutorials for several months. However, the website itself looks pretty slick. You can […]
If you're a long time reader of this blog, then you will know that I really like the wxPython GUI toolkit. Something that seems to stump new wxPython users is how to find out what styles and events each widget has though. It does take some practice to learn how the documentation works, but there's […]
Another week is over and we have a new set of articles for you to check out this weekend. You can learn new things, try modules, and be productive. Or you can go party. Don't forget about all the different PyCons going on this year around the world. There are local ones and International conferences. […]
I've been kind of lazy about putting these out lately, but I have decided to try to do this more regularly. This week covers a lot of different topics including a controversial article from Steve Holden! You can also learn about an exotic location for a Python Conference, Sage and Meta-programming. If you're new to […]
