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Advice for a person wanting to learn Python to create Workflows on iOS.
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re. 1: Reference for what? Pythonista comes with built-in offline documentation for the Python standard library and Pythonista's custom modules.
re. 3: Yes, the beta allows selecting Pythonista as a target in the share sheet, which you can use to run scripts on the shared data, or just use it in the interactive prompt. Be aware that installing the beta currently requires you to first delete Pythonista entirely, which means you'll lose any scripts and other data that you haven't backed up. Also because it's a beta there's always the risk of bugs and crashes that may lead to data loss, and not all features in the beta might make it into the 1.6 release.
re. 4: Might be a bug caused by a more recent iOS update. I'm using the beta on my iOS 8.3 iPad mini and themes work fine (though there were lots of internal changes to themes in the beta) and on my iOS 7 iPhone 4 with Pythonista 1.5 I don't have any issues either.
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I think Q4 may be related to a bug in 1.5 that essentially causes crashes in the settings dialog when no file is open in the editor. It should go away when you open one of the examples.
Themes in 1.5 only have an effect on text in the editor btw, so you may not see any difference if you don't have a script open (this will change in 1.6, where themes affect the entire app).
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For a reference you might want to take a look at How to Automate the Boring Stuff with Python which is a free online book with Chapter 12 – Working with Excel Spreadsheets. You can pay for a local copy but you can read the online copy for free.
Pythonista has great built in docs as was stated above and the Numpy module is a powerhouse for manipulating numerical data.
Is there a published sample data file from the Intel's ARK database? Have you checked out the Intel ARK app for iOS? What are you trying to get that it does not already deliver?
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Sorry for taking two days to respond, I should take some time to setup the notifications when someone replies to me...
@dgelessus & @ccc,
I was hoping for both internal documentation and a book which I can follow along for ideas. Thank you both for this.
Thank you for the information about the Beta. I will apply and hopefully there is a slot available.
@omz & @dgelessus,
If I open a sample file first, Pythonista will not crash. Thank you for the solution.
@ccc,
It sounds like the book is what I'm searching for and I'll have a look at it. Thank you.
I had tried the iOS version but I couldn't find the the "Feature Filter (http://ark.intel.com/Search/Advanced) which is built in to the web app. If you select options in the left frame and hit the "Search", there is an "Export Data" on the top right. I was able to open the document in Office 2010 but not on the iPad.
I can always upload the file I was working with if anyone wants to see what happens.
This is just one example of the file conversions I would like to automate and I think (hope) it shouldn't be too difficult as a "first project".
It's been 17 years since I've written anything significant and most of what I did was in DBase, C+ and some Pascal. I figure it's a matter of reading the documentation and examining code to see how everything works together.
I see so many of you helping others like myself and it is inspiring and when I have an understanding of all this, I want to do the same.
Thank you all for the help and I hope I haven't missed anything.
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For a reference you might want to take a look at How to Automate the Boring Stuff with Python which is a free online book with Chapter 12 – Working with Excel Spreadsheets. You can pay for a local copy but you can read the online copy for free.
once you read chapter 11, seems like you could download the site and use pythonista to view locally. He probably should have made that the last chapter :)
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I'd keep Drafts - if you like Javascript and/or some of the automation it allows.
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Just to prove that there is data in there somewhere... Run Writer.py first and Reader.py second... https://github.com/cclauss/Intel_ARK_database
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@omz. In the future updates of Phytonista, have you plans to include the openpyxl module?
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@noopykat with the current version of Pythonista you can only acces to the csv module. In my Mac mini desktop I installed Phyton Anakonda, which has installed the openxl module. I tried the code that comes in the Book AUTOMATE THE BORING STUFF WITH PYTHON and available in Kindkle format, where you can learn a lot about the Python language and how to work wit EXCEL spreadsheets, PDF docs , WORD docs an CSV files.
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For a quick rundown of python syntax I wrote this script. Hope that helps.
I also have recommended reading
Other code examples on my github also.
