Python: Let's Add an About Window Using PyQt4

Python: How Do I Display a List From PyQt4's QListWidgetItem()?

You may have to change self.listWidget.item() to PyQt4.QtGui.QListWidgetItem() for your situation.

Python 2.5 GUI Programming: PyQt vs. wxPython

And also Qt Designer vs. wxFormBuilder.

RPG: Using Virtual Worlds in Google+ Hangouts

Python 2.5: Let's Program a Small PyQt GUI Project Together Using Qt Designer

View on YouTube for more instructions and access to files.

RPG: Virtual 2D6 Die Rolling

Adding virtual dice to my die roll program.

Demo of Onlive! Traveler

It's been 15 years since I visited some of these places.

Getting Py2exe to Work With Matplotlib for Python 2.5

I just started playing around with Matplotlib in Python 2.5.4. I love it so far. And, of course, I just had to make a Windows EXE file from a project I was working on. Nothing but crashes using Py2exe until I learned about glob.

The problem I was having was with the Matplotlib data files not being included/found when running the EXE. At the CMD prompt, I enter setup.py py2exe as usual.

The setup.py code is below:

# Used successfully in Python 2.5.4 for py2exe and matplotlib
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

import glob
 
opts = {'py2exe': {'includes': ['matplotlib.backends',
                                'matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg',
                                'matplotlib.figure', 'pylab', 'numpy',
                                'matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg'],
                   'excludes': ['_gtkagg', '_tkagg', '_agg2', '_cairo', '_cocoaagg',
                                '_fltkagg', '_gtk', '_gtkcairo'],
                   'dll_excludes': ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll', 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll']
                  }
        }

data_files = [(r'mpl-data', glob.glob(r'C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\*.*')),
                  (r'mpl-data', [r'C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\matplotlibrc']),
                  (r'mpl-data\images', glob.glob(r'C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\images\*.*')),
                  (r'mpl-data\fonts', glob.glob(r'C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\*.*'))]

# for console program use "console = [{'script': '3d6_line_bar.py'}]"
# for windows program use "windows = [{'script': '3d6_line_bar.pyw'}]"
setup(windows = [{'script': '3d6_line_bar.pyw'}], options=opts, data_files=data_files)

Python Programming: Building Character

I recently posted a YouTube video showing how to quickly generate the beginnings of a role-playing character for Traveller, using Python 2.5.4.

The source code is below:

from random import randint

char_name = ['STR', 'DEX', 'END', 'INT', 'EDU', 'SOC', 'PSI']

char = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

for i in range(len(char_name)):
    char[i] = randint(1,6) + randint(1,6)
    
for i in range(len(char_name)):
    print '%s: %d' % (char_name[i], char[i])

I may do more such posts here in the future, now that I've recently learned how to properly post program code.

High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python

Read the article here.