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PyLan three
Hello welcome to the long-time-coming third article in this tutorial. I apologize to everyone (anyone?) that was waiting for it. I have been very busy as of late and have had much of my time taken up by a few other python projects, that I hope to be able to show you [...]

PyLan two
This is part two of the PyLan tutorial series, if you want to follow along with the code in detail, and have not done so already, you should read part one of this series.
In this tutorial I will go over the following items:

Showing a popup window
Working with a gtk.Calendar widget
Working with gtk.ComboBox widgets
Working [...]

Introduction
All right, many of you have probably heard of, or read, David Allen’s book Getting Things Done if not it’s a pretty interesting book about how to organize the things in your life.
As I was reading it I thought that a simple todo list could be created using Python and PyGTK pretty easily, [...]

In this tutorial we will go over the (very) basic steps that you can use in order to translate (localize or internationalize) your PyGTK application. For this tutorial we are going to use the PyWine application that we have been working with in two previous tutorials:

Building an Application with PyGTK and Glade
Extending our PyGTK [...]

Hi everyone just a quick post to let you know that I probably won’t be posting much during this month as I have decided to participate in nanowrimo which leaves me almost no time to come up with tutorials.
I as mentioned in the past Satoshi Tanabe over at satolog has translated a few of my [...]

All right, so we have our base WordPy application running, so let’s try to extend it a bit more by letting you load and save blog posts to and from an xml file. Please note that this tutorial simply shows one method of saving and loading data using xml, there are many different methods [...]

In this tutorial we are going to extend our PyWine application to allowing you to edit the items that you have added to the list and save an load the wine lists you create so that you don’t have to keep entering them in all the time.

Topics covered in this tutorial:

Glade
PyGTK
gtk.FileChooserDialog
gtk.FileFilter
gtk.TextView
gtk.TextBuffer
gtk.TextMark
gtk.MessageDialog

You can download the full source for this tutorial here.
One of the things that I found the other day while I was surfing the web looking for information on Python was this WordPress Python library. Since I use Wordpress for this site I thought that I’d play with it a [...]

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but simply couldn’t find the time up until right before I leave on my trip. Here is a quick screenshot of my last tutorial running on Windows:

Since I’ve been showing mostly Mac and Linux screenshots I thought I’d post a Windows just to balance things [...]

After working with PyGTK and Glade for my first tutorial, I decided to write another more complex tutorial but I couldn’t think of a topic (Note: If you have any suggestions for any tutorials or posts I’d love to hear them) so I decided to work on creating a simple application and hopefully useful topics [...]