There was a recent post on StackOverflow that I thought was interesting. It asked how to get the event name from the event object, such as EVT_BUTTON, rather than the event's id number. So I did some investigation into the subject and there is nothing builtin to wxPython that does this task. Robin Dunn, creator […]
It's been a while since I have done any interesting Python links. I quit for a while because these things take a while to put together and few seemed interested, but I'll give it another go. This week has a really interesting article on Python and robots. Jesse Noller has a fun article where he […]
We had our monthly Pyowa meeting yesterday, Thursday, June 2nd at the IMT Group building in West Des Moines. Refreshments were provided. There was pop and Little Caesar's pizza. We had two good talks. The first was given by Scott and he spoke on the topics of printing labels to a Dymo label printer using […]
Have you ever wondered about how to change your font in wxPython? Well, now is your lucky day because that is exactly what this tutorial is going to cover. We will look at the following three items: Built-in fonts of wxPython The font dialog The font enumerator demo from the wxPython demo Fonts are an […]
PyCon 2011 (USA) is over. But a lot of people wrote articles about it. So in case you missed the action, you can check out a few of the articles about what happened. If you don't see your favorite PyCon-related article here, let me know in the comments. The Superboard Takes Pycon! Ten Tips for […]
On Sunday, March 13th, the final official PyCon conference day occurred (there were sprint days that followed, of course). Anyway, they had three interesting plenaries to help lead us into that day's talks. Read on to find out what they were about. The Threadless Plenary Chris McAvoy, VP of Technology at Threadless in Chicago gave […]
