New tutorials about PySide .

I make one new tutorial about PySide. I started with one simple tutorial with two simple examples.
I hope this help you.
You can read more about this

The new release Python 3.5.0a4 - tutorial.

I install the Windows amd64 web-based installer. This allow me to use the windows gui to make all settings.
You also need some administrator privileges for C Runtime ...

Some notes about this installation process:

• If you have previously installed Python 3.5.0a1, you may need to manually uninstall it.
• If installing Python 3.5.0a4 as a non-privileged user, you may need to escalate to administrator privileges to install an update to your C runtime libraries.
• Python 3.5 now has an embeddable installer designed to be run as part of a larger application's installer for apps using or extending Python.There is now a third type of Windows installer for Python 3.5.

You can find your python files under \AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35.
The Python35 have python.exe, see:

Python 3.5.0a4 (v3.5.0a4:413e0e0004f4, Apr 19 2015, 18:01:47) [MSC v.1900 64 bit
 (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Let's see all defaul Python35 modules:

__future__          abc                 hmac                select
_ast                aifc                html                selectors
_bisect             antigravity         http                setuptools
_bootlocale         argparse            idlelib             shelve
_bz2                array               imaplib             shlex
_codecs             ast                 imghdr              shutil
_codecs_cn          asynchat            imp                 signal
_codecs_hk          asyncio             importlib           site
_codecs_iso2022     asyncore            inspect             smtpd
_codecs_jp          atexit              io                  smtplib
_codecs_kr          audioop             ipaddress           sndhdr
_codecs_tw          base64              itertools           socket
_collections        bdb                 json                socketserver
_collections_abc    binascii            keyword             sqlite3
_compat_pickle      binhex              lib2to3             sre_compile
_compression        bisect              linecache           sre_constant
_csv                builtins            locale              sre_parse
_ctypes             bz2                 logging             ssl
_ctypes_test        cProfile            lzma                stat
_datetime           calendar            macpath             statistics
_decimal            cgi                 macurl2path         string
_dummy_thread       cgitb               mailbox             stringprep
_elementtree        chunk               mailcap             struct
_functools          cmath               marshal             subprocess
_hashlib            cmd                 math                sunau
_heapq              code                mimetypes           symbol
_imp                codecs              mmap                symtable
_io                 codeop              modulefinder        sys
_json               collections         msilib              sysconfig
_locale             colorsys            msvcrt              tabnanny
_lsprof             compileall          multiprocessing     tarfile
_lzma               concurrent          netrc               telnetlib
_markerlib          configparser        nntplib             tempfile
_markupbase         contextlib          nt                  test
_md5                copy                ntpath              textwrap
_msi                copyreg             nturl2path          this
_multibytecodec     crypt               numbers             threading
_multiprocessing    csv                 opcode              time
_opcode             ctypes              operator            timeit
_operator           curses              optparse            tkinter
_osx_support        datetime            os                  token
_overlapped         dbm                 parser              tokenize
_pickle             decimal             pathlib             trace
_pydecimal          difflib             pdb                 traceback
_pyio               dis                 pickle              tracemalloc
_random             distutils           pickletools         tty
_sha1               doctest             pip                 turtle
_sha256             dummy_threading     pipes               turtledemo
_sha512             easy_install        pkg_resources       types
_signal             email               pkgutil             unicodedata
_sitebuiltins       encodings           platform            unittest
_socket             ensurepip           plistlib            urllib
_sqlite3            enum                poplib              uu
_sre                errno               posixpath           uuid
_ssl                faulthandler        pprint              venv
_stat               filecmp             profile             warnings
_string             fileinput           pstats              wave
_strptime           fnmatch             pty                 weakref
_struct             formatter           py_compile          webbrowser
_symtable           fractions           pyclbr              winreg
_testbuffer         ftplib              pydoc               winsound
_testcapi           functools           pydoc_data          wsgiref
_testimportmultiple gc                  pyexpat             xdrlib
_thread             genericpath         queue               xml
_threading_local    getopt              quopri              xmlrpc
_tkinter            getpass             random              xxsubtype
_tracemalloc        gettext             re                  zipapp
_warnings           glob                reprlib             zipfile
_weakref            gzip                rlcompleter         zipimport
_weakrefset         hashlib             runpy               zlib
_winapi             heapq               sched

Also the this version come with pip3.5 under Script folder to use pip solution.
You can run some demos with this \Python35>python.exe Tools\demo\.
The all download files come with this options:
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XZ compressed source tarball Source release dd8d2dcb8c8b301d57228be896317612 14704088 SIG
Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer Mac OS X for Mac OS X 10.5 and later c648d4f3f02ce06d839e2b754e8382bc 25250926 SIG
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Windows amd64 embeddable installer Windows b2c3001cd03d478293680f88beaf5218 6660944 SIG
Windows amd64 web-based installer Windows b2c3001cd03d478293680f88beaf5218 912024 SIG
Windows amd executable installer Windows 5ca6f1dcc56c66065d874420ae95ea23 29316824 SIG
Windows help file Windows d5434e2cf712ebdf11ede3b6cdb43a64 7581518 SIG
Windows x86 embeddable installer Windows 32f1d62bc4cad46e5bf3444d648e53f0 6068184 SIG
Windows x86 executable installer Windows a220359f4f6cefcc316504cccd3dc0fb 28459976 SIG
Windows x86 web-based installer Windows dd6712fe691f4212fb9e516541103721 886400 SIG
See more about this new release here.
You can see also the new beta python module with all issues.

Upgrading all packages with pip using python script.

Can be done under Windows OS with this python script :

C:\Python27>python.exe
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:24) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pip
>>> from subprocess import call
>>>
>>> for dist in pip.get_installed_distributions():
...     call("pip install --upgrade " + dist.project_name, shell=True)
...
You are using pip version 6.0.8, however version 6.1.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Requirement already up-to-date: appdirs in c:\python34\lib\site-packages
0
You are using pip version 6.0.8, however version 6.1.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Collecting beautifulsoup4
  Using cached beautifulsoup4-4.3.2.tar.gz
...

The Windows will need to have the Script path folder into enviroment variables: C:\Python27\Scripts.
If you use Linux OS shell then you can use this :

pip freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1  | xargs -n1 pip install -U

pip-Win the new GUI for python pip.

The pip-Win is a Python Package manager that is easy to install and let you to automatically installs python module using pip and virtualenv on Windows.
Features

• switch from one python interpreter (i.e. version) to another (including py and pypy)
• see all installed packages, and whether they are up-to-date
• install or upgrade a package, or upgrade pip itself
• create and delete virtual environments, and switch between them
• run the IDLE or another python script, with the selected interpreter

Also pip-Win is made available under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.
You can try it from here.

Using facepy to deal with facebook .

This python module allow you to get some data from facebook using Facebook’s Graph API.
The development team tell us:
Facepy can do more than reading your latest posts and posting photographs of parrots, but you’ll have to read the documentation to find out how.
You can use pip to install this module ( pip2.7 or pip3.4):

pip install facepy
The python script is simple :

...\Python34>cd Scripts
Scripts>pip3.4.exe install facepy

Now you can test this with this simple script:

C:\Python34>python.exe
Python 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:45:13) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AM
D64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import facepy
>>> from facepy import *
>>> from facepy import GraphAPI
>>> graph = GraphAPI('.....my...token.....'
)
>>> graph.get('me')
{'gender': .....................................
......................'}

News: Python 3.4.3 is out.

Python 3.4.3 was released on February 25th, 2015 with many bugfixes and other small improvements.
More about that and can be found here.
This are the new library modules from this new release :

• asyncio: New provisional API for asynchronous IO (PEP 3156).
• ensurepip: Bootstrapping the pip installer (PEP 453).
• enum: Support for enumeration types (PEP 435).
• pathlib: Object-oriented filesystem paths (PEP 428).
• selectors: High-level and efficient I/O multiplexing, built upon the select module primitives (part of PEP 3156).
• statistics: A basic numerically stable statistics library (PEP 450).
• tracemalloc: Trace Python memory allocations (PEP 454).

NOTE: The PEP contains the index of all Python Enhancement Proposals are assigned by the PEP editors, and once assigned are never changed

Install PyOpenGL with pip with wheel and WHL file .

This is a old tutorial I wrote about how to install python on windows 8.1 with distribute, pip, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper-powershell.
Now I will show you how to deal with WHL files and pip wheel.
First you need to install pip under your python folder.
I used in this case Python 2.7 version.
The WHL file and wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the .whl extension.
You can use this :

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip2.7 install wheel
Collecting wheel
  Downloading wheel-0.24.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (63kB)
    100% |################################| 65kB 682kB/s ta 0:00:011
Installing collected packages: wheel

Successfully installed wheel-0.24.0

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip2.7 install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip from https://pypi.python.org/packages/py2.py3/p/pip/pip-6.0.8-py2
.py3-none-any.whl#md5=41e73fae2c86ba2270ff51c1d86f7e09
  Downloading pip-6.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB)
    100% |################################| 1.3MB 952kB/s ta 0:00:01

This will install wheel and update the pip2.7 .
For example, just use next command to install OpenGL python module.

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip2.7 install PyOpenGL
Collecting PyOpenGL
  Downloading PyOpenGL-3.1.0.tar.gz (1.2MB)
    100% |################################| 1.2MB 2.2MB/s ta 0:00:01
Installing collected packages: PyOpenGL
  Running setup.py install for PyOpenGL
Successfully installed PyOpenGL-3.1.0

Also pygame whl working with pip2.7.
I download it from pygame website, from here. Download your version of WHL file ( amd64 is for CPU 64 bits) and your python version (cpxx). Now use this command:

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip2.7.exe install "C:\Downloads\pygame-1.9.2a
0-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl"
...
Installing collected packages: pygame
  Found existing installation: pygame 1.9.1
    DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (pygame) has been de
precated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that u
ninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
    Uninstalling pygame-1.9.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pygame-1.9.1

Successfully installed pygame-1.9.2a0

News: FOSDEM 2015 and python room.

FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world.
You can find a schedule of python room here.
The FOSDEM 2015 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015 - Brussels.
Also no registration necessary on this event , according to FOSDEM website.

Python and last version of Notepad++ 6.7.3

The last version of Notepad++ has released at 2015-01-01.
It comes with many features and fix also some bugs:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding;
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding;
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace;
• GUI entirely customizable: minimalist, tab with close button, multi-line tab, vertical tab and vertical document list;
• Document Map;
• Auto-completion: Word completion, Function completion and Function parameters hint;
• Multi-Document (Tab interface);
• Multi-View;
• WYSIWYG (Printing);
• Zoom in and zoom out: Ctr key + Mouse Wheel ;
• Multi-Language environment supported;
• Bookmark;
• Macro recording and playback;
• Launch with different arguments;

I try it with python 3.4 and working very well.
First I download it from here.
I install it and I set it to working.

I wrote a simple python 3.4 script and then I press F5 key - Run from Notepad++.

import os 
import sys 
print ("this is notepad test - python run")

I put this in this window to run it python 3.4 : C:\Python34\Lib\idlelib\idle.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

Also I press save button and select Ctr+Alt+P to run the scripts with hotkeys. This can be see it under Run menu.
When I press it then a python window with your script will show us and just you need is to press F5 key to run it.

WinPython - 32 and 64bit portable distribution with Qt.

The new WinPython (version 3.3.5.4) released at 2014-12-22 come with this issue:
WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows XP/7/8, designed for scientists, supporting both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2 and Python 3.
I use 64bit portable distribution with Python 3.3.5 (v3.3.5:62cf4e77f785, Mar 9 2014, 10:35:05) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AM
D64)] on win32 and working very well.
From this link you can download it.
WinPython is a free scientific Python distribution for Windows that is portable.It is completely isolated from the rest of the system. Also, WinPython can be installed in a folder (will be put into your download folder)and can be moved anywhere.
You can move on an USB stick and this will make entirely functional.
WinPython is bundled with a lot of existing Python packages.
Also, it includes graphical and command-line utilities to install/uninstall any Python package easily.

This come with spyder 2.3.2 version editor to edit your scripts.

You can use also Qt with Qt designer and you also have a demo application, see:

pygame - using sound, mixer, volume, channels, fade-in and out effect .

PyGame module come with sound feature and this allow users to test some effects.
The next tutorial show you how to deal with pygame sound effect.
After, you can test all effects with python version 3.4.1 .
I used keys to change effects. The song is a ogg file.
I used this sample from a recording of of the album Through the Devil Softly by the artist Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions from here.

IronPython - new version and default project.

IronPython was released.
As you know the IronPython come with version 2.7.5.
About IronPython you can find more here:
IronPython is an open-source implementation of the Python programming language which is tightly integrated with the .NET Framework. IronPython can use the .NET Framework and Python libraries, and other .NET languages can use Python code just as easily.
Download the IronPython last version from here.
I use binaries instaler and this make all working.
When I used Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop I saw the binaries not working well.
Also this have a python tool and this will make all download to working well.
Just try it , restart it and will see after this new projects:

Make a new project with Python Application.
The project come with default project: "Hello world"
Just add this :

import sys
print(sys.version)

The result wil be this:

Hello World
3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:45:13) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]
Press any key to continue . . .

News : PythonAnywhere come with good news.

The author Giles tells us:
Obviously, the most important thing we did was to switch out our javascript console for a new one that supports 256 colours! And slightly more sane copy + paste. And it works on Android, or at least it does on Lollipop. Giles recommends the Hackers keyboard. Still doesn't work on my blackberry though.
As you know :
PythonAnywhere is a Python development and hosting environment that displays in your web browser and runs on our servers. They're already set up with everything you need. It's easy to use, fast, and powerful. There's even a useful free plan.
I worked with PythonAnywhere and is very good. Thank you Giles.