The PyDev of the Week this week is Ben Rousch (@brousch). He is a contributor to the Kivy project. You should check out his blog here. You can also see Mr. Rousch give a talk about Kivy on Youtube. Let's find out more about him!
September 26, 2014 by
Mike There are several 3rd party packages that wrap Twitter's API. We'll be looking at tweepy and twitter. The tweepy documentation is a bit more extensive than twitter's, but I felt that the twitter package had more concrete examples. Let's spend some time going over how to use these packages!
September 23, 2014 by
Mike I've been hearing some buzz about a newish web service called Twilio which allows you to send SMS and MMS messages among other things. There's a handy Python wrapper to their REST API as well. If you sign up with Twilio, they will give you a trial account without even requiring you to provide a […]
September 3, 2014 by
Mike My first book, Python 101 is on sale this month. You can get it on Amazon US for $2.99 or you can buy it for 50% off via my website. To get 50% off, just enter the following offer code at checkout: fall2014
September 3, 2014 by
Mike Recently I wrote about the arrow project and one of my readers mentioned that another datetime related project known as Delorean. So in this article, we'll spend some time going over the delorean project. This will be a high level article as there is no reason to rewrite the delorean's documentation.
The wxPython GUI toolkit includes its own date / time capabilities. Most of the time, you can just use Python's datetime and time modules and you'll be fine. But occasionally you'll find yourself needing to convert from wxPython's wx.DateTime objects to Python's datetime objects. You may encounter this when you use the wx.DatePickerCtrl widget. Fortunately, […]
