Is it possible to use Spyder in conjunction with Micropython? Currently I use an application called Thonny which provides access (and discovery) of my remote (USB) device using a remote interpreter dialog box. I'd like to use Spyder in a similar manner. Spyder has a remote interpreter facility but I an unable to discover my USB device within facility. I'm using Windows10.
I can't find any currently available way of interacting with your MicroPython device directly from within Spyder, but of course you can use Spyder to edit your code and transfer it to the micro using rshell, for example.
In principle it looks like it should be possible to write a Spyder plugin for MicroPython, if your desktop Python skills are good and you fancy a project.
Depending on what board you're running MicroPython on you might be able to use a plugin for Pycharm. There are Pycom plugins for VSCode and Atom but I don't know whether those work for any boards other than the Pycom ones.
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I used pyinstaller to create an executable file (Desktop GUI). I am on Windows, and the person I am sending it to is on Mac.
I was under the impression that pyinstaller was cross platform, but the Mac user gets an error when trying to run the app. What are my options for distributing my GUI for both Windows and Mac?
I have not been able to find a straightforward answer and do not have a Mac to test with. I saw Inno Setup, but haven't found anything saying whether or not it's cross platform.
I need to create a script that can run both Windows and Mac. I am also looking for an easy way to send it electronically.
I have no knowledge of Python but after a quick serach on the internet came up with this which might help you.
A few months ago I went through this process (rather painstakingly I might add) to deploy a simple Xamarin Cross Platform App. In my own experience I have learned that the macOS has very strict rules about how software is to be packaged for deployment on a computer.
If you are using Visual Studio for Mac it will automatically build a packaged installer for you. But, you do have to purchase (at an yearly cost) a Developer ID.
Then, you create specific provision profiles for your application and these are used along with your developer ID to sign your packaged installer. I found it somewhat complicated!
Finally, you follow a procedure via the console on the mac to submit your package for an automatic scan. This is referred to as getting your package notarized (link to a SO question about that process).They provide you a result that then gets stapled to the package.
It is like a double signing. Once this is done then the package can be installed by users using the macOS.
An alternative is that the user run a instance of Windows by using a software package called Parallels. I have to say it is very good and I did enjoy my trial of the software, You can fire up Windows from inside the macOS (no need to reboot) and since it is Windows you can simply run your stahdard installers.
In summary, for the macOS, if you do not correctly sign your package with a developer and application ID, and don't get it notarized and stapled the operating system will throw it back out at you and not run it.
I'm working on a research project where the data is stored in a remote Windows desktop. The desktop does not have Python, it only has Rstudio, but most of the research conducted in this topic was in Python. I want to benchmark already existing implementations, but I can't run the code on the data because there's no Python and this will not change. As far as I understand, tools like reticulate still need an underlying Python interpreter in the system to work and I am not allowed to do that.
Has anyone come up with a smart solution that does not involve me manually translating the python code to R? Any R packages that can read python? Any other out-of-the-box ideas on how to get that code to run on the data?
Can't install Python on Windows? Just Use WinPython
WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows 8/10 and scientific and educational usage.
Since it is portable, it is a zero install option. This is probably the best option for you.
https://winpython.github.io/
Once you have WinPython on the machine, if you want to use it with RStudio, you'll need to configure reticulate to use it.
Say you have (1) the remote Windows Desktop that does not have Python and (2) the local computer you work on.
Use the remote Windows Desktop (1) as a git repository, clone that repository on your local machine, make changes to it and run locally using Python, then submit the code to the remote repository again.
I'm looking for an equivalent Python library that will work when I run my script on Raspberry Pi. I'm under the impression that pywinauto only works on windows machine.
I want to control some inputs to a GUI launched by my script, using my script. Apart from pywinauto I have no idea how to do this. I thought about using command line to control the software directly, but if there is a simpler way I would really appreciate knowing about it.
Thanks for your time.
ATSPI is an Linux accessibility technology to obtain GUI text/rectangle properties programmatically. See how to find and run ATSPI registry daemon and how to enable ATSPI for the most popular types of GUI apps. Usually it's
$ /usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd &
There is a Python bindings for ATSPI. See this answer for details:
How to install pyatspi?
The pyatspi package has too many dependencies like pygobject etc. It also requires some compilation during installation steps. We think this is not user friendly so we decided to use libatspi.so directly (without any dependencies). This work status can be tracked here: https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto/pull/449
There is no exact deadline for pywinauto 0.7.0 with this feature (it's a hobby project), but I would say this summer sounds realistic.
I have the Python Extensions for Windows installed. Within the PythonWin IDE I can get autocomplete on Automation objects (specifically, objects created with win32com.client.Dispatch):
How can I get the same autocomplete in VS Code?
I am using the Microsoft Python extension.
The Python Windows Extensions has a tool called COM Makepy, which apparently generates Python representations of Automation objects, but I can't figure out how to use it.
Update
Apparently, the Microsoft Python extension uses Jedi for autocompletion.
I've filed an issue on the extension project on Github.
Note that in general I have Intellisense in Python; it's only the Intellisense on Automation objects that I am missing.
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I have confirmed your problem in VSCode, although it may be possible IntelliSense works fine. Note Ctrl+Space invokes suggestions for a pre-defined variable:
However, there does not appear to be public attributes available for win32com.client by default. This may be why IntelliSense does not appear to work.
Test
Having installed win32com for Python 3.6, I have confirmed the following code in Jupyter notebook, IPython console and the native Python REPL:
import win32com.client
app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
len(dir(app))
# 55
[x for x in dir(app) if not x.startswith("_")]
# []
This issue of hidden attributes is not a new. Please confirm this test in another environment/IDE. It may be your environment or particular version of PythonWin pre-loads certain variables in the global namespace.
Verify the following:
The Python extension is installed
A Python interpreter is selected
A Python file is selected; this starts up the Python server
References
Post by the extension's creator for troubleshooting autocompletion issues.
Thread on how autocompletion works via PyScriptor
I don't think that the example you show with PythonWin is easily reproducible in VS Code. The quick start guide of win32com itself (cited below) says, its only possible with a COM browser or the documentation of the product (Word in this case). The latter one is unlikely, so PythonWin is probably using a COM browser to find the properties. And because PythonWin and win32com come in the same package, its not that unlikely that PythonWin has a COM browser built in.
How do I know which methods and properties are available?
Good question. This is hard! You need to use the documentation with the
products, or possibly a COM browser. Note however that COM browsers
typically rely on these objects registering themselves in certain
ways, and many objects to not do this. You are just expected to know.
If you wanted the same functionality from the VS Code plugin a COM browser would have to be implemented into Jedi (IntelliSense of the VS Code plugin).
Edit: I found this suggestion, on how a auto-complete, that can find these hidden attributes, could be done:
These wrappers do various things that make static analysis difficult,
unless we were to special case them. The general solution for such
cases is to run to a breakpoint and work in the live runtime state.
The auto-completer should then include the complete list of symbols
because it inspects the runtime.
The conversation is from an mailing list of the python IDE wingwide. Here you can see, that they implemented the above mentioned approach:
I think your problem is related to defining Python interpreter.
Choose proper Python interpreter by executing python interpreter command in VS Code command palette by pressing f1 or ctrl+shift+p key.
I have to write an application for a GSM Modem from Telit that uses Python 1.5.2+
I have been using PyCharm CE only as an editor for my code but debugging and testing my code directly on modem hardware.
I've tried to configure my project to use Python 1.5.2+ and PyCharm calls it as "Unknown" as seen below:
I also tried use Python Console but PyCharm doesn't support it.
I don't have enough experience with PyCharm, so I only want to confirm that it doesn't support Python 1.5.2+ or I'm doing something wrong. In last case, how can I configure it to use Python 1.5.2+?
The eldest Python, which PyCharm supports, is 2.4.