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Re: License

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Re: wxPython and SqlAlchemy: An Intro to MVC and CRUD

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Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

driscollis — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:10:48 -0000

Cool! Thanks for your readership! I'm glad you enjoy the blog so much.

Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

JadKik — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:29:15 -0000

Great idea, great tool. I did the exact same thing few weeks ago for a book. But it is shorter than your code...
Take a look at that:
http://www.2shared.com/file/fv...

And it worked for me with 433 pages! All in one PDF.
I think the key is not using platypus (or maybe it has nothing to do with it :) ).

BTW, I love this blog, learned so much from here (including reportlab :D)

Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

driscollis — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:14:06 -0000

Thanks for the explanation. I have to admit that I haven't had to use much sorting outside of the generic sort that is included with Python. The ones they teach in college didn't help me either. I tried this sort on several different lists and it worked on all of them, so I was pretty happy. Thanks for your readership!

Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

Shawn Wheatley — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:51:33 -0000

The sort you're describing is commonly called a natural sort: http://www.codinghorror.com/bl...

There's a Python implementation linked in that post that's much shorter. Nice work though, I could see using this on scans of some old books I have.

Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

driscollis — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:46:32 -0000

Yeah, someone mentioned that to me after I found that fun script. That's certainly an alternative.

Re: Reportlab: Converting Hundreds of Images Into PDFs

Peter Grooby — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:43:28 -0000

Couldn't you have written a script that renamed the jpg files so that all the numbers were zero padded to the left? Jia_0001.jpg etc ?
Then they would sort as would be expected....

Re: Top Ten Articles of 2011

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Re: Top Ten Articles of 2011

renesd — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:27:46 -0000

I really like your articles too. Not so much the wx ones though, since I haven't been doing wx - but they are still interesting.

Re: Top Ten Articles of 2011

driscollis — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:40:18 -0000

I'm glad you found them so helpful. Thanks!

Re: Top Ten Articles of 2011

Alan — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:55:16 -0000

I really appreciated your wxpython articles. Yours was the go-to blog when i needed an example. Thanks.

Re: Book Review: Numpy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide

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Re: Book Review: Numpy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide

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Re: Book Review: Numpy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide

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Re: wxPython 101: Creating Taskbar Icons

driscollis — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:10 -0000

That img2py autogenerated code is pretty old. I probably should have regenerated it for this post using the newer img2py, but I didn't expect it to be an issue when I wrote this. Thanks Robin!

Re: wxPython 101: Creating Taskbar Icons

RobinD — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:19:39 -0000

A newer version of img2py will use the base64 representation by default, and will also generate other code in the module that is a little better, uses a PyEmbeddedImage class, etc. You can try using -F with your current version to see if it can already use this new format.

Re: wxPython 101: Creating Taskbar Icons

driscollis — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:11:41 -0000

As I mentioned in the article, that part was auto-generated by img2py. There are several command line parameters I can pass to it. Perhaps one of those can do this already. I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure. Thanks for the heads-up though.

Re: wxPython 101: Creating Taskbar Icons

Shibturn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:54:20 -0000

Using zlib to compress the data does not work because PNGs are already compressed. The original string has been embedded verbatim in your "compressed" string. Since python's representation of binary data is rather inefficient, you would be better off using base64 or uuencode instead, eg:

def getData(): return '''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'''.decode('base64')

Re: Python Voted Best Programming Language 3 Years Running

driscollis — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:45:23 -0000

You're quite welcome. I'm happy to help. Have a great day!

Re: Python Voted Best Programming Language 3 Years Running

Ángel Luis — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:41:33 -0000

Excellent Mike!. Thanks for your contributions. One month ago I wrote my degree project, vipera, an application designer for Python, in Python and wxPython, and I want to thank you, Robin Dunn and Cody Precord for our work about wxPython and Python. You are the best!

Re: Python 101: Setting up Python on Windows

driscollis — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:53:51 -0000

Me too, but I forgot to mention that in my article.

Re: Python 101: Setting up Python on Windows

Kevin Horn — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:50:10 -0000

I also like to add ".PY" and ".PYW" to my PATHEXT environment variable, so that Windows will rocognize python files as "executable".

Re: Python 101: Setting up Python on Windows

ak77 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:54:49 -0000

default python (unfortunately) installation also makes FTYPE and ASSOC connection, so you can run python program by simply typing script's filename into the shell.

I say unfortunately, because, when you start using virtualenv (and you do), this is one thing you have to un-learn.

Re: eBook Review: Treading on Python

driscollis — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:52:20 -0000

I figured this was primarily a beginner's book. I hope I didn't sound too critical. I thought it was pretty good, which is why I said that budding Pythonistas should take a look. I thought there might be another volume in the pipeline with more advanced stuff too. I'll send you an email with my other thoughts and a weird error I saw in the text.