The QWebView is a highly useful control; it allows you to display web pages from URLs, arbitrary HTML, XML with XSLT stylesheets, web pages constructed as QWebPages, and other data whose MIME types it knows how to interpret. It uses the WebKit web browser engine. WebKit is an up-to-date, standards-compliant rendering engine used by Google’s [...]
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Writing Simple Views for Your First Python Django Application
In the previous article Activate Admin Application for Your Python Django Website, we learned how to activate the built-in Admin Application from Django in your website. In this article, we are going to write simple views for your website. What is a view? In Django, a view is an endpoint that can be accessed by [...]
Advanced SQLite Usage in Python
Following the SQLite3 series, this post is about some advanced topics when we are working with the SQLite3 module. If you missed the first part, you can find it here. Using SQLite’s date and datetime Types Sometimes we need to insert and retrieve some date and datetime types in our SQLite3 database. When you execute [...]
Python for Android: Using Webviews (SL4A)
Webviews make it easy to use web technologies to build graphical user interfaces for native applications. Many people already know some webcraft, and it’s easy to pick up and well worth knowing, so there’s a broad appeal in being able to use these technologies for native apps. This also allows developers to tap into the [...]
Introduction to SQLite in Python
SQLite3 is a very easy to use database engine. It is self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration and transactional. It is very fast and lightweight, and the entire database is stored in a single disk file. It is used in a lot of applications as internal data storage. The Python Standard Library includes a module called “sqlite3″ intended [...]
Activate Admin Application for Your Python Django Website
In the previous article , we learned how to write two models Post and Comment for your Django application myblog. In this article, we are going to learn how to activate Django’s automatic admin site that provides a convenient interface for users or administrators of your website myblog to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) [...]
Python for Android: The Scripting Layer (SL4A)
The Scripting Layer for Android, SL4A, is an open source application that allows programs written in a range of interpreted languages to run on Android. It also provides a high level API that allows these programs to interact with the Android device, making it easy to do stuff like accessing sensor data, sending an SMS, [...]
Writing Models for Your First Python Django Application
The previous article Writing Your First Python Django Application is a step-by-step guide on how to write a simple Django application from scratch. In this article, you will learn how to write models for your new Django application. Software Architectural Patterns Before we dive into the code, let’s review two of the most popular server-side [...]
Writing Your First Python Django Application
Create A Django Project The previous article Introduction to Python’s Django presented an overview of the Django Framework. In this article, we are going to write a simple Django application from scratch. The first step is to create a project using one of Django’s built-in commands django-admin.py. In a Virtualenv, type this command: [shell] django-admin.py [...]