Tag Archive: python


Make tests Qt-friendly

Testing Qt code with the Python unittest module is simple as ever.

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New bug-fix version for wxScheduler 1.3.1

It’s available a new version of wxScheduler. This version is only a bug-fix release.

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Remove “(from old mac)” files

Time Machine is a powerful solution to backup, restore or move your Mac OS X installation to another machine or just after a full reinstall of the operating system. The restore system is smart enough to put all your applications, profile files, and all other stuff which belong to you.

For some files and folders (for example MacPorts installation and XCode folder) the restore process, to be safe, renames that files or folder appending a (from old mac) string, wasting hard drive space.

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Simple event dispatcher in Python

In this post I’ll show you a simple event dispatcher implementation in Python. Every big UI frameworks can play with events an listener without reinvent the wheel but sometimes you need a very simple way to dispatch and receive events in you application without involve in megabytes of an external framework.

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Let Babel works with py2exe

Babel is a framework to translate date, times, numbers and currency in all the languages of the world. Unfortunately the package is not py2exe-friendly but with a little patch we can let Babel works when is embedded with py2exe.
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New stable version for wxScheduler 1.3.0

Thanks to the work from Jérôme Laheurte, a new stable release of wxScheduler is available in Google Code project website.

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Taskcoach use wxScheduler

Taskcoach, a todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists, now use wxScheduler to show tasks in the Calendar view.

I’m proud to see my wxPython component used for the first time in a non-commercial project. I glad to Jérôme Laheurte to have chosen wxScheduler for his calendar view and for the patch and improvements he made to wxScheduler.

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Compile PyQt4 with Python 2.7 64-bit under Mac OS X

A couple fo days ago Python 2.7 was release as a first stable release. Looking at the Mac OS X ports I found the new official 64-bit release and I installed it. But now the Qt Python bindings stops working because they are compiled as 32-bit binaries.

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Install PyQt4 in Snow Leopard

New country, new life style, new spoken language and new GUI toolkit ! After 5 years of wxPython toolkit now it’s the time to move to PyQt4. Let’s see how install this GUI toolkit under Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

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Cross platform doesn’t exists

When you write code in Python you can be almost sure your code will run on different operating systems. I say almost sure, not completely sure, because some of the libraries and packages you are using can have different behaviors on different systems.

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