The "Book" Controls of wxPython (Part 2 of 2)
In the first part of this series, I wrote on all the non-agw notebook widgets included with wxPython. For this second article, I will be focusing on the two notebooks that are in the AGW library of...
View ArticleA Brief ConfigObj Tutorial
Python comes with a handy module called ConfigParser. It's good for creating and reading configuration files (aka INI files). However, Michael Foord (author of IronPython in Action) and Nicola Larosa...
View ArticleEnabling Screen Locking with Python
A few months ago, my employer needed to lock down some of our workstations to be compliant with some new software we were installing from another government organization. We needed to force those...
View ArticleUsing Python to Reduce the Roaming Profile
Roaming Profiles are a blessing and a curse. If the user uses the internet, their browser's cached files will grow like mad. If the user downloads programs to their desktop or creates large Powerpoint...
View ArticleGetting Photo Metadata (EXIF) Using Python
Last week, I was trying to find out how to get my photo's metadata. I had noticed that Windows could display the camera model, creation date and lots of other data on my photos, but I couldn't remember...
View ArticleParsing ID3 Tags from MP3s using Python
While working on my Python mp3 player I realized I needed to research what Python had to offer for parsing ID3 tags. There are tons of projects out there, but most of them appear to be either dead,...
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