Beta Status Update
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last edited byUnfortunately, I've recently been unable to provide a new beta version of Pythonista 1.6. This is partly my own fault, and partly due to unexpected difficulties with TestFlight.
First off, I've been working on two different branches of Pythonista for quite some time, one being the current (expired) 1.6 beta, a relatively minor update with new Python modules but not much else, the other a more significant update with a major UI refresh and quite a few other new features that I'm pretty excited about (more on that soon).
This approach has sometimes made it difficult to keep both versions in a working state. When I changed something in version B, I sometimes ended up accidentally breaking stuff in version A... So a couple of weeks ago, I decided to ditch the current beta branch, and exclusively focus on the new version instead, but I have to admit that I vastly underestimated the amount of work that this would take – a lot of basic things were still missing in the new branch, and even though it had some nice new features, it would have been a step down in terms of stability and basic functionality that you'd expect, even if you were coming from 1.5.
Right now, it's still a bit rough around the edges, but definitely usable and an improvement over the current version. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get TestFlight to work with it yet. I continue running into server-side issues with builds not processing properly after I upload them. In order to make some new features work, I had to change the App ID (for code-signing), and it seems that this is a scenario that just doesn't work very well with TestFlight – it's difficult to go back now because that would mean sacrificing new functionality that I spent quite a lot of time on... At first, the only reason for the new App ID requirement was the document picker support in the new
dialogsmodule (requires iCloud entitlements), but the new version also contains an app extension (for running scripts from the share sheet in other apps), and I've realized now that this also doesn't work with the old App ID, and while the document picker support wasn't that important to me, the app extension is a major feature that I really want to ship.If you do have the current (expired) beta installed and would like to get your data out of it, here are two options you can use:
Option 1 (if you have a Mac with Xcode):
- Connect your device via USB
- Start Xcode and select Devices from the Window menu, then select the connected device in the sidebar
- Under Installed Apps, select Pythonista
- Click on the "Gear" icon and select Download Container...
The downloaded container is a package (i.e. folder), so you can view the individual files in Finder by selecting Show Package Contents from the context menu.
Option 2 (if you're on a PC or don't want to install Xcode):
- Make an unencrypted(!) backup of your device using iTunes
- Download the iBackup Viewer tool (Mac or Windows) – (the free version will do, if you have the paid version, you could also encrypt your backup)
- Go to "(your device)/Applications" (this may take a while to load)
- Select Pythonista in the list of apps, then click the "gear" button and select Save all Files.... I would recommend that you create a new folder for this because the app will create multiple folders while extracting the backup files.
Edit: You can also try downgrading by downloading 1.5 from the App Store. Apparently, this didn't result in data loss for some people, but I'm not quite sure if this always works.
That's all I have for now. I'm very sorry this took so long. When I know more, I'll post it here.
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last edited byWill Pythonista support pyd pyo pyx etc. in the future? Many useful modules require these formats.
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last edited bypydfiles are dynamic libraries. As far as I know they don't have a specific format - on Windows for example they are justdlls with a different extension, on other operating systems that's probably also the case. This means that mostpyds would not be compatible with the iOS kernel in the first place and would need to be recompiled from source code. Because Apple doesn't allow apps to dynamically link to custom libraries it wouldn't be possible to use those anyway.pyofiles are optimized Python bytecode. (Optimized means that anyassertstatements, and sometimes docstrings, have been removed.) Their format is the same as forpycfiles, which Pythonista already generates to improve module loading speed. These files are usable in Pythonista - IIRC someone has done this before - but there's little point in doing that, you might just as well use the Python source code for the files.pyxfiles are Pyrex or Cython code. Both are languages that are syntactically similar to Python, but compile to C source code and can use C types and libraries. The problems with these are the same as withpyds that I explained above.
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last edited byI upgraded my iPhone 6 to iOS 8.3 and Platformer game works now. Unfortunately I don't remember the iOS version that failed.
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last edited byI am getting a repeatable crash of pythonista 1.6 when editing a meduim sized file. It comes when I type anything after I type the instace of a tableview and then the period. I beleive this is an autocompletion issue. But I can't figure out how to disable autocompletion to test it.
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last edited byDoes clearing the code completion cache change anything? If not, mind uploading the code in question to Gist? Interestingly I don't get any code completion at all for a
TableViewinstance.AFAICT it isn't possible to disable code completion (or switch it to "simple" mode) anymore in the latest beta. There isn't even an option for that in the
com.omz-software.Pythonista.plistfile anymore.
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last edited byI do get TableView instances to code complete, though the first time takes a few seconds.
I have observedrequestsobjects, andGittleobjects take a really really long time to complete(like minutes....I think the innards of these are very dynamic) in 1.5, which locked everything up until a completion popped up! The workaround was to type a space, then period followed by your attribute, then go back as backspace out the space. This prevents autocomplete from happening, at least in the console. Misspelling the object name also works,etc.
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last edited byBlmacbeth, where are you setting the physics? Make sure you are setting it AFTER calling sk.load, otherwise load overwrites anything you have set already.
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last edited bynode.copy() does not copy the physics body correctly. The node copy points to a physics body but I think it's the same as the original. I have to manually make a copy.
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last edited byMore on autocompletion explosions. I opening up
chordcalc.pyand typedtvCapos.delegate = fredWhen I went to the file menu to switch files, the app crashed.
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last edited byRe: platformer grey screen. I found on IOS 8.2 that removing the [`orientations='landscape'] from the last line, then rotating my device after pressing play, the game was playable.
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last edited byIt's fine in 8.3.
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last edited by@JonB, I am setting up the physics through the sprite kit editor, not through the script editor. The first thing I do in the script is
things = sk.load('things.pysk, sk.Node()). I would assume that the numbers I set inthings.pyskwould load there. However, when I run the following: (where I have setrestitutioninthings.pyskto0.5)ball = things['ball'] print ball.physics_body.restitutionI get
0.2and not0.5. I found a work around by setting the restitution in the script editor.
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last edited byHooked up to my Mac and used XCODE to look for a crash report. None.
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last edited by(Thought I had posted this before...)
I manually imported
jediand tried to get a code completion on one of the problematic spots. At some point it ends up in an infinite recursion loop, until the interpreter throws an exception due to exceeding the recursion limit. Why exactly this happens I can't say though.
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last edited byAn off switch would be nice. This was not a problem (in 1.5). @degelessus: Which version of jedi did you try? The installed jedi in 1.6 is 0.9.0. Perhaps a rollback to 0.8.1?
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last edited by@polymerchm It seems that only crash reports with file names ending in ".ips" are shown in Xcode. Those that have been transferred are renamed on the device to ".ips-transferred" or similar. Those from the Pythonista beta end in ".ips-beta" or so. Fortunately, they call all be viewed on the device, if you go to Settings -> Privacy -> Diagnosis ... -> Diagnosis ... (or something close to that).
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last edited by@OMZ Do you automatically get crash logs, or can I send them to you? Will sync device tonight and see if I have logs relevant to the autocomplete bug (now that I know where to find them).
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last edited byI've found an issue where
editor.make_new_file()causes the app to crash. It doesn't seem to matter what arguments I pass to it the app just shuts down.
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last edited byworks fine for me (iOS 8.3, beta 1.6).
import editor editor.make_new_file('test.py','this is a test')create a file in the root directory each time its run, adding a number to the end to avoid a duplicate name.
