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Learning Python Application Development

By : Ninad Sathaye
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Learning Python Application Development

By: Ninad Sathaye

Overview of this book

Python is one of the most widely used dynamic programming languages, supported by a rich set of libraries and frameworks that enable rapid development. But fast paced development often comes with its own baggage that could bring down the quality, performance, and extensibility of an application. This book will show you ways to handle such problems and write better Python applications. From the basics of simple command-line applications, develop your skills all the way to designing efficient and advanced Python apps. Guided by a light-hearted fantasy learning theme, overcome the real-world problems of complex Python development with practical solutions. Beginning with a focus on robustness, packaging, and releasing application code, you’ll move on to focus on improving application lifetime by making code extensible, reusable, and readable. Get to grips with Python refactoring, design patterns and best practices. Techniques to identify the bottlenecks and improve performance are covered in a series of chapters devoted to performance, before closing with a look at developing Python GUIs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Python Application Development
Credits
Disclaimers
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter served as an introduction to the Python GUI programming. Starting with an overview of the different GUI frameworks, it touched upon some important practical design considerations for developing user interfaces. You saw what event-driven programming is, and learned about events and event handling. With a quick introduction to Tkinter library, we developed a simple Hut Game, an equivalent GUI version of the first ever application developed in Chapter 1, Developing Simple Applications.

The second half of the chapter introduced you to the MVC architecture, and we transformed the Hut Game to implement this architecture. The chapter concluded with a high-level discussion on testing GUI applications.