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Kiwi PyCon 2010 in beautiful Waitangi New Zealand
The last Kiwi Python Convention (PyCon) was brilliant and the 2010 convention will be in beautiful Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Here is the release from the organising committee: Hi all, We’ve got another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we’re all expecting it to be as good as last year’s event. This year it [...]
Support graphics arrive in SOFA Statistics
The first release for series 0.9 of SOFA Statistics has just been launched. The main focus of series 0.9 will be the “learn-as-you-go” goal. To this end, there will be plenty of support graphics and decision-support documentation. See 0.9.0 can examine normality of variables when selecting main test to use. Matplotlib is being used for [...]
Python fits in my brain – no accident
One of the things I like about Python is the way I can hold so much more in my brain without having to look stuff up. If you know the tools for working with sequences (strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries etc), you know what to do with anything that is a sequence. Data from a database [...]
wxPython Dialogs swallow TAB movements
If your wxPython text control is on a Dialog, the TAB key movement will be swallowed unless you use the style TE_PROCESS_TAB. Strangely I only had the problem in Windows but not Ubuntu. I hope this helps someone because it had me stumped for quite a while.
Printing Scripts from Eclipse in Ubuntu
Printing scripts can be very useful – but not if the font size is enormous. Unfortunately, eclipse (3.4.1) under Ubuntu (Jaunty) had exactly this problem (see also http://www.coderanch.com/t/106543/IDEs-Version-Control-other-tools/Printing-eclipse). A solution I found was to shrink the font, print, and then restore the font. Given that I hardly ever want to print scripts (only when I’m [...]
New Project to Develop Open Source Statistics Program
SOFA (Statistics Open For All), is a new, open source statistics program currently under development (see http://www.sofastatistics.com). The development version of SOFA can already connect directly to a range of different databases and lets users display results in an attractive format ready to share or put in a spreadÂsheet. A packaged release is being prepared. [...]
wxWebkit on Intrepid
wxWebKit is a very important cross-platform control for the wxPython GUI toolkit. It enables you to display complex HTML pages (including live from the web) e.g. tabular output or help files. Fortunately, wxWebkit can be made to work on Ubuntu Intrepid. Indeed, I am editing this blog item right now from within a wxPython wxWebKit [...]
Better Python Console Gedit Plugin
Just came across Better Python Console – which is a plugin for Gedit, the main text editor in Ubuntu. Think of it as being like IDLE. I use Eclipse with PyDev and the PyDev extension for heavy development and the console for anything quick and dirty. Get the plugin, plus some basic info, here – [...]
Eclipse in Ubuntu with PyDev and Pydev Extension
Installing eclipse and pydev is done from synaptic and is straight-forward. Installing pydev extensions happens from Help > Software Updates > Find and Install > Search for new features to install. Have a remote site of http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/ NB we only want pydev, not the optional pydev mylyn integration (if you get nagged for things about [...]
Open Flash Chart
I have just come across Open Flash Chart and it looks brilliant. It has PHP and Python libraries and more.