Re: MCOW package

2017-05-01 Thread Metallicow
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 10:47:44 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2017 01:01 pm, Metallicow wrote: > > > I finally uploaded my wx/lib/mcow package. > > It has many widgets and mixins and probably more to come. > > Congratulations! What does it

MCOW package

2017-04-30 Thread Metallicow
I finally uploaded my wx/lib/mcow package. It has many widgets and mixins and probably more to come. It has been extensively tested on Windows and at least tested on a linux flavor. It would be nice if I could get some mac testing also. :) https://github.com/Metallicow/MCOW -- https

MCOW package

2017-04-30 Thread Metallicow
I finally uploaded my wx/lib/mcow package. It has many widgets and mixins and probably more to come. It has been extensively tested on Windows and at least tested on a linux flavor. It would be nice if I could get some mac testing also. :) https://github.com/Metallicow/MCOW -- https

Re: trailing underscores naming convention_

2014-05-09 Thread Metallicow
On Friday, May 9, 2014 3:10:26 AM UTC-6, Peter Otten wrote: > Metallicow wrote: > > > I guess to be more clear here is a small code snippet that shows what is > > happening more readably. Hence the underscores question. > > Working with multiple names with small differenc

Re: trailing underscores naming convention_

2014-05-08 Thread Metallicow
I guess to be more clear here is a small code snippet that shows what is happening more readably. Hence the underscores question. class MainAuiManager(aui.AuiManager): def __init__(self, managed_window=None, agwFlags=0) aui.AuiManager.__init__(self, managed_window, agwFlags)

Re: trailing underscores naming convention_

2014-05-08 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:24:00 PM UTC-6, Ian wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Metallicow wrote: > > I seem to be comfortable with all the information out around the net dealing > > with python naming conventions. Occasionally I have to remind myself on some > > of

trailing underscores naming convention_

2014-05-08 Thread Metallicow
I seem to be comfortable with all the information out around the net dealing with python naming conventions. Occasionally I have to remind myself on some of this stuff. The PEP8 does a good job for most of it, but I am having a bit of trouble finding some more detailed information on the trailing h

Re: Examples of modern GUI python programms

2014-03-31 Thread Metallicow
On Monday, March 31, 2014 3:16:16 PM UTC-5, Sturla Molden wrote: > > According to their web page, PySide is only LGPL. Qt is LGPL or commercial. """ Licensing PySide has been published as a response to the lack of suitably licensed Qt bindings for Python. PySide is licensed under the LGPL vers

Re: Examples of modern GUI python programms

2014-03-31 Thread Metallicow
On Monday, March 31, 2014 3:48:33 AM UTC-5, Sturla Molden wrote: > If you are to distribute a program using LGPL software on AppStore or > Gopgle Play, then remember that the user must be allowed to relink the > program with anpther version of the library. That is an LGPL requirement. I > don't see

Re: Examples of modern GUI python programms

2014-03-30 Thread Metallicow
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:16:06 PM UTC-5, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 03/30/2014 05:16 PM, D. Xenakis wrote: > > > What i need is to develop an android looking program (entirelly in > > python) for windows, but dunno if this is possible (most propably > > is), and which tool between those would h

Embroidermodder2 Kickstarter for Python also!

2014-03-29 Thread Metallicow
rds to consider also for your pledge. The campaign is going on until April 20th(Easter), so I encourage everyone interested in cheaper quality tools and clothes/etc to pledge what you can. Lets help these guys out. Thanks. Pic to python port WIPz http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab180/meta

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-30 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:05:13 AM UTC-5, Metallicow wrote: > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:19:48 AM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > Thanks Barry for all the hard work. > > > > Ditto. Wish I still had my Guido van Rossum World Tour t-shirt! > > &

Re: RELEASED: Python 2.6.9 final

2013-10-30 Thread Metallicow
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:19:48 AM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Thanks Barry for all the hard work. > > Ditto. Wish I still had my Guido van Rossum World Tour t-shirt! > > Skip try: BlackT() # http://www.python.org/~guido/images/IMG_2192.jpg except Exception as pocketT: Embr

Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-30 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:46:51 AM UTC-5, Metallicow wrote: > +1 for stdev Steven. Thanks for the extra legs. > Hope all goes well with introductions... I'm sure it will. > :) Good Job. Well, what I am trying to get at is whether it is better as... stddev or stdev...? 6(3st

Re: Animated PNG Vs Gif: 120fr 3D Python Powered Logo

2013-10-28 Thread Metallicow
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:15:05 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > I used a freeware called Photoscape to open the gif, change the > delays, and resave it. Thanks, I have used the program before and recall some aspects of it, but as far as gif goes I try to not deal with them much because of the headach

Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:09:55 AM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > A useful library for this purpose is ‘six’ (as in “3 × 2”) > http://pythonhosted.org/six/>. You can use its features to do > things that are useful or better in Python 3, but which need special > implementation to work on Python 2

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
On Monday, October 21, 2013 9:29:34 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:43:52 -0700, Peter Cacioppi wrote: > > Challenge: give some examples of things which you can do in Python, but > cannot do *at all* in C, C++, C#, Java? Ummm... hmmm let me try here... string = 'Py

Re: Screenshots in Mac OS X

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
Well, I'm not going to post my whole module as I get little testing on mac, but I will let you in on a little secret: Use a GUI, such as wxPython or QT or other, then create a basic fullscreen frame that is invisible and copy its DC to the clipboard. Not exactly a hack(might be edgy), but it wo

Re: Animated PNG Vs Gif: 120fr 3D Python Powered Logo

2013-10-22 Thread Metallicow
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:56:33 AM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > This is not entirely true. The minimum specifiable delay for a frame > in an animated gif (other than 0, which just means "as fast as > possible") is 0.01 second, which is the setting in the gif linked > above. However, most browsers tha

Re: Animated PNG Vs Gif: 120fr 3D Python Powered Logo

2013-10-21 Thread Metallicow
Here is links to the apng/gif on ImageShack uploaded with the "Do Not Resize" option. Checked/Views fine with default Firefox/Opera browsers. Animated 3D Python Powered Logo apng - 120frames 1/60 sec http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4717/f4l4.png gif - 120frames about 1/10sec or as fast as it ca

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-21 Thread Metallicow
Are you suggesting Advertising is the Best language there is? # After many years, I agree not, but what to may... def If I do Something do, you not react(): IsMySyntaxNotCorrect() CanINotCorrectMyGrammaticalMistakesAndSeekAcceptance(): # The most arguable language

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-21 Thread Metallicow
Python is the Best! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Animated PNG Vs Gif: 120fr 3D Python Powered Logo

2013-10-21 Thread Metallicow
Discussion: Dear Guido and friends, Noticed this is gaining alot more support lately. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/374397522/apngasm-foss-animated-png-tools-and-apng-standardi After testing my gif and apng Animated 3D Python Powered Logos... The difference is real obvious at first. apng w

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-20 Thread Metallicow
Sorry about that, nokia is/was. qt was developed(IIRC) for phones. Someone made money. And a lot of it. wx is a more or less a "free" project. I don't use a phone anymore. If I had a touch screen phone and was a developer, I still wouldn't use one. I have my many reasons why... -- https://mail.py

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-20 Thread Metallicow
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:55:59 PM UTC-5, Eamonn Rea wrote: > There are a few known GUI toolkits out there, and the main ones from what I > can tell are: > > > > Tkinter -- Simple to use, but limited > > PyQT -- You have a GUI designer, so I'm not going to count that > > PyGTK -- Gno

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-06 Thread Metallicow
Google(will) Search This Message: Industry Standards, PEP8, Whitespace, Print, Printing, Opinion' I could add more... For example: Pantone color wheel. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-06 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:01:31 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:59:34 -0700, Metallicow wrote: > > PEP8 needs a bit of revision anyway, In my opinion... According to > > real-world standards for equipment/devices. linking to a table/list of

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-06 Thread Metallicow
RailRoadTieWidth = 79.1234567890 >>> 79 = 'Width Of A Horse"s Ass' File "", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to literal >>>RailRoadTieWidth.attribute ("American", "Steam") >>>79.attribute = ("Roman", "Chariot") File "", line 1 79.attribute = ("Roman", "Chariot") ^ SyntaxE

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-05 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:01:31 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > And that's especially badly thought out. How is an import that occurs > when the code is *run* supposed to make a difference to the way the code > is *written*? Proofreading. Or maybe call it pre typesetting. -- https://

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-05 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 10:40:46 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Thanks for the comments, and welcome, but I really don't have a clue what > the relevance of most of them are. Real-world Experience. > > If you are still using equipment that requires 79, then chances are you > > have/will

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-05 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 8:47:01 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/5/2013 6:21 PM, Metallicow wrote: > > > > > > If you are still using equipment that requires 79, then chances are you > > have/will already gone out of business or are keeping/using said e

Re: PEP8 79 char max

2013-09-05 Thread Metallicow
Well as for my opinion, it is more closer to the truth than others because... Experience: 1. I know Python and have read the PEP8. 2. I have knowledge of/worked with the Printing Trades. 3. Grandfather owned/operated own Printshop for 40+yrs. Which I also worked in at one point. If you are still

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-12 Thread Metallicow
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:36:45 AM UTC-5, Tim Roberts wrote: > Really? Because Windows is the ONLY one of the major operating systems > > that actually has a dedicated system fonts directory. Linux doesn't even > > have a dedicated windowing system. So... Is it expected to install duplicat

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:27:04 PM UTC-5, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 11.07.2013 19:19, schrieb Metallicow: > > > @ Chris �Kwpolska� Warrick > > > Thanks, that is a start anyway. > > > a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not win32api stuff. &g

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:47:01 PM UTC-5, Nobody wrote: > > What makes you think the system *has* a system font directory? Way back when I was kid, I remember a computer that had two colors and 1 built-in font and no mouse. Heck the keyboard was even attached in front a tube screen box. Wo

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
@ Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick Thanks, that is a start anyway. a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not win32api stuff. "C:\Windows\Fonts" The windows path proves valid. Works on XP, Vista, 7. Not sure about win8...? Don't have a mac handy, but the link should be enough to help write some code

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
For a portable font install tool. Finding if a particular font exists, useful when testing apps in virtual environent, rendering text from a font, Font file manipulations, etc.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Need a simple script for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.. Or using wxPython. I can't seem to find anything that works, and I don't want to hard-code paths. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list