Now you can embed ShowMeDos in your own site with just a simple copy/paste of some HTML.

You just need to copy 10 lines of HTML onto your site and It’ll Just Work – instructions in the wiki, you can embed any of the public videos.

Pick one of our 113 Python tutorials and give it a [...]

Simple Yes/No queries give us a simple way of asking the user for confirmation. Stephen Ferg’s easygui makes this easy with the ynbox. No other modules are needed, easygui is cross-platform. This follows-on from the enterbox and fileopenbox examples.

This code:
import easygui
result = easygui.ynbox(message = “Do you want to continue?”, title = “Continue?”)
# [...]

Horst Jens’ three Python Kids are discussed in ‘Python for Kids’ in this month’s Python Papers.

The article covers PyDoc, EasyGUI, DrPython and RUR-PLE. Python Papers editor Tennessee Leeuwenburg has authored the piece in Volume 2 Issue 2 (html version)

Writes Tennessee Leeuwenburg:

“The use of Python in education is clearly a significant topic in its own [...]

Did you know that you can have a file-open or -save dialog in just 2 lines of Python? Stephen Ferg’s excellent easygui module makes it possible. No other modules are needed, easygui is cross-platform. See also the enterbox example.

Two lines of code:

import easygui
fileNameAndPath = easygui.fileopenbox(title = “Choose your file”, argInitialFile = [...]

We are looking for reviewers for our first two commercial ShowMeDo series. Both series are aimed at new Python coders and show everything needed to learn new Python skills.

One series shows how to write a complete application from scratch and the other shows three ways to develop code (PyDev, IDLE, text-editor) on Windows. [...]

We’ve just moved from Kid templates to Genshi (v0.4). Kyran’s first approach was to put all the helper div-functions into one of two separate (big) Genshi files to simplify the translation process.

We had several of these files, each about 10k in size, each imported into every main Genshi template.

This approach made it easy for [...]

To optimise some of our slower Genshi pages (e.g. this one) I needed a reliable way of extracting render-times from different sections of the templates. Python’s datetime module came to the rescue.

Below is a snippet of a Genshi template showing how I embedded calls to datetime and how I rendered the time-differences in the [...]

We have just implemented the first round of RSS feeds for ShowMeDo (using the very simple TurboGears FeedController). This feature is about a year overdue…if only I’d known it was so straight-forward. Look for the big RSS icons in the site.

The latest-video feed is tag-based so to track the latest Python videos subscribe [...]