Isolationism

Although I haven’t been lucky enough lately to get to do any Python programming at work or in my spare time, I still end up tweaking the occasional file or fixing a bug here and there—And hope springs eternal for what the future may hold. A friend pointed out that he wanted to find a better Python editor, and brought Stani’s Python Editor (or SPE) to my attention, which wasn’t even on my radar a year ago but seems very promising now that I’ve had a chance to look.
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First, let me state that I am a relative noob at working with JavaScript—and to be blunt about it, event-driven programming gives me a headache (on top of having to work with JavaScript at all, that is).

My most recent challenge was how to fit event handling into an object-oriented design approach; I wanted to load an image from a new URL (e.g. it isn’t already embedded within the HTML page), then get the loaded image’s dimensions for use elsewhere in a larger application.

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