learning python

I just stumbled on this and I thought I’d pass it onto my fellow python programmers, it’s a python 3000 status update from Guido van Rossum.
Personally I’m looking forward to Python 3.0, I don’t know if I’ll like the break in backwards compatibility but a lot of the changes seem great.
Making the print statement a […]

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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 […]

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Hey everyone, I’ve been getting hit with a bunch of spam comments over the last few days so I’ve made it so that all comments must be moderated before they will appear.
Sorry about this, I don’t like this form of comment posting, but hopefully after a few days I will be able to switch it […]

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So I’ve been working on PyGame for PyWeek lately and I’ve been having a lot of fun. I also took a weekend off from my email so I did not notice that Lord Taran has been creating Spanish translations for a bunch of my PyGTK tutorials.
If you are interested in the Spanish tutorials check […]

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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
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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, […]

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After putting off this tutorial for as long as I possibly could (I’m not sure why) I have finally decided to buckle down and learn how to use WxWidgets using the WxPython Python bindings.
Installing
Getting WxWidgets and WxPython installed on my Debian Linux computer was as simple as installing the python-wxgtk2.6 Debian package. If you […]

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Introduction
All right, this is just a little tutorial about working with text in pygame. Now, this isn’t the only way to work with text, there are many other methods to do this, in fact much of the time you’ll probably end up using images for interactive text. So this is mainly meant to […]

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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 […]

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Well I’m halfway through NaNoWriMo and everything is going pretty well so far, but today I was surfing the net and looking at some python stuff and I must admit I miss programming in python in my free time.
While writing a novel in one month is fun and all it’s also pretty stressful and sometimes […]

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