Archive for the 'python' Category

Translating your Python/PyGTK application

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

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 [...]

Halfway through NaNoWriMo

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

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 [...]

Novemeber

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

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 [...]

WordPy 0.2 - Using XML to Save and Load Data

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

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 [...]

IronPython Hello World Tutorial

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

As some of you may have heard IronPython 1.0 has been released. If you don’t’ know what IronPython is, it’s:
a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .NET [...]

PyWeek!

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Recently I’ve been playing around in PyGame for the past PyWeek and having a blast! Sadly my PyWeek entry was mostly a bust as real life got the better of me, but it reminded my how much I enjoy python and doing simple game programming.
Hopefully I’ll continue on with both my PyGTK and [...]

Extending our PyGTK Application

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

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.

Japanese translation!

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Satoshi Tanabe has translated my Creating a GUI using PyGTK and Glade tutorial into Japanese! You can view the Japanese tutorial on his website: http://po3a.blogspot.com/2006/08/pygtk-glade-gui.html
Way to go Satoshi!

WordPy offline blogging tool

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

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 [...]

WordPy Test

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Hey everyone, what’s up? This is a test for my WordPy project:

It’s basically an offline Wordpress blog poster written in python and PyGtk.
My tutorial on creating this project is almost done, but I still have to finish the last little bit and then proof read all of it.
Hopefully this works!