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Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Venkateshwaran Loganathan, Gopinath Jaganmohan
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Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Venkateshwaran Loganathan, Gopinath Jaganmohan

Overview of this book

Elegantly-built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform. This book will take you through everything you need to know to develop UI applications. You will learn about installing and building PySide in various major operating systems as well as the basics of GUI programming. The book will then move on to discuss event management, signals and slots, and the widgets and dialogs available with PySide. Database interaction and manipulation is also covered. By the end of this book, you will be able to program GUI applications efficiently and master how to develop your own applications and how to run them across platforms.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chapter 6. Database Handling

Most of the applications that we use in our day-to-day life have to deal with some type of stored data that can be used as and when required. Databases enable us to store this data in a structured manner and also provide us with some guidelines on how this data is to be presented to the end users. In short, databases are an organized body of related information that is usually intro records with a common denominator. The software that controls the access to the databases and enables you to create, edit, and maintain them is known as Database Management Systems (DBMS). There are numerous DBMS systems that are available in the market and each of them is used to suit some specific needs.

The DBMS that we use in this chapter to provide examples is SQLite. As the name specifies, SQLite is a light-weight, public-domain, in-process database system that is used for local storage in many application software applications. This chapter assumes that the users are familiar...