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My Google Docs getting weird in formatting and difficult to edit

Crop of my google docs
So, I don't know what happen to my google docs, but everything went well until I tried to open the ".xlsx" file using openpyxl module in Python
I am not sure as well if it was caused by the module itself or what caused the error in my google docs.
So, basically my google docs is getting difficult to be edited. When i tried to move my cursor at certain points, it always brings the cursor in the beginning of the sentence at particular line. Next if I type something it always appear at the section "IT APPEARS HERE". And last thing, if i type something without a space or enter, it will not type in the new line but it seems like just breaching the page border and goes beyond that. I don't know what is going on here.
I am wondering if it was caused by my trial & error in the python code (?), but seems like no direct correlation between that. So, yeah I need your advice on this guys.. I really appreciate your help

.xlsx is file format for Microsoft Excel, try opening with Google Sheets

Might be related to the issue described here: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/14/if-youre-using-an-ad-blocker-in-google-docs-you-could-run-into-weird-problems/
Basically: Disable your adblocker for google docs for now.

Revit, Python: How to get the current build of an open project file?

I have a python file that needs to read the Version Year that the open project is currently in (for instance, the current project is in Revit 2020). Once I get that, I can pass that info on to other portions of the script - basically telling it what folder to find the families for that version.
Make sense???
Problem is, I can't seem to find a clue for what I need to look for to get the version.

All right, paint me stupid. Here's the PRETTY DAMN EASY ANSWER!
app = doc.Application
data = app.VersionNumber
print data
I like simple!

You might also want to take a look at the utility shared in this recent comment on The Building Coder discussion of Basic File Info and RVT File Version.

How to use libchamplain to load local tiles or OSM XML in Python?

I am trying to use GTK and libchamplain to display a map from local map data. The application is to be run on computers with no internet connection.
After taking a look at the mapbox.py example it seems like one should replace the NetworkTileSource source with FileTileSource. So I used the minimal.py example to work with FileTileSource:
widget = GtkChamplain.Embed()
widget.set_size_request(640, 480)
tile_source = Champlain.FileTileSource.new_full(
ID,
NAME,
LICENSE_TEXT,
LICENSE_URL,
MIN_ZOOM,
MAX_ZOOM,
TILE_SIZE,
Champlain.MapProjection.MERCATOR,
Champlain.ImageRenderer())
tile_source.load_map_data("map.osm")
widget.get_view().set_map_source(tile_source)
Unfortunately, when running the application, the map is not being displayed, and I receive the following error message:
(minimal.py:26308): libchamplain-WARNING **: NULL pixbuf
Based on some C examples (one, two), I assume that there is a so-called renderer missing, called Memphis, which is C only. It seems like Champlain's ImageRenderer, despite its similar name, is not the right tool for this.
So my question is how I would continue at this point. There are quite a few OSM renderers besides Memphis, probably some written in Python as well, but which one(s) would integrate well with Champlain?
It doesn't have to be be OSM, either. A collection of pre-rendered PNG would be fine with me, too. It's just that the FileTileSource documentation specifically mentions "Loads the OpenStreetMap XML file at the given path", which is why I assume better support for OSM.
Any help is much appreciated.

I managed to do it in a very simplistic way: just organize your tiles respecting the #z#/#x/#y# logic as described in the docs, then don't change anything in that mapbox.py example except the URI. your case, for a file structure on the /tmp directory could look like:
MAX_ZOOM,
TILE_SIZE,
Champlain.MapProjection.MERCATOR,
"file:///tmp/tiles-#Z#/#X#/#Y#.png",
#"https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.streets/#Z#/#X#/#Y#.png?access_token=" + ACCESS_TOKEN,
Champlain.ImageRenderer())
still according to the docs, the FileTileSource is meant for using a single osm file. I'm not so sure how that works, I didn't yet try it.

Pygments to latex better formatting for py code

I am trying to include python code in my lyx document by inserting a file. I began by trying to use listings but this was causing code to overflow pages.
Now I'm using pygments setting it up as described in this tutorial, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/IncludeExternalProgramListingUsingPygments. This appears to work fairly well but the code highlighting is off. for instance def and elif keywords are not highlighted and docstrings do not highlight if they are split over multiple lines.
I have tried changing the style to a few different built in ones but this hasn't worked.
Has anyone got a/ knows of a good way to highlight python code in the same way as idle does.
Thanks.

You should check out package called minted, although I don't know how well it works together with Lyx. But in regular latex file you can just do:
\usepackage{minted}
...
\inputminted[]{python}{python_file.py}

Search function with PyGTKsourceview

I'm writing a small html editor in python mostly for personal use and have integrated a gtksourceview2 object into my Python code. All the mayor functions seem to work more or less, but I'm having trouble getting a search function to work. Obvioiusly the GUI work is already done, but I can't figure out how to somehow buildin methods of the GTKsourceview.Buffer object (http://www.gnome.org/~gianmt/pygtksourceview2/class-gtksourcebuffer2.html) to actually search through the text in it.
Does anybody have a suggestion? I find the documentation not very verbose and can't really find a working example on the web.
Thanks in advance.

The reference for the C API can probably be helpful, including this chapter that I found "Searching in a GtkSourceBuffer".
As is the reference for the superclass gtk.TextBuffer

Here is the python doc, I couldn't find any up-to-date documentation so I stuffed it in my dropbox. Here is the link. What you want to look at is at is the gtk.iter_forward_search and gtk.iter_backward_search functions.