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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

Overview of this book

Tkinter is a modular, cross-platform application development toolkit for Python. When developing GUI-rich applications, the most important choices are which programming language(s) and which GUI framework to use. Python and Tkinter prove to be a great combination. This book will get you familiar with Tkinter by having you create fun and interactive projects. These projects have varying degrees of complexity. We'll start with a simple project, where you'll learn the fundamentals of GUI programming and the basics of working with a Tkinter application. After getting the basics right, we'll move on to creating a project of slightly increased complexity, such as a highly customizable Python editor. In the next project, we'll crank up the complexity level to create an instant messaging app. Toward the end, we'll discuss various ways of packaging our applications so that they can be shared and installed on other machines without the user having to learn how to install and run Python programs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Linking flask and sqlite


We now need to import and use our database module inside our server module. In order to make this easier, we should first wrap all of our functions in a class.

Update your database.py file, creating a class named Database and adding the necessary self instances to your methods. We can also move the database name out to an attribute in the __init__ method:

import sqlite3

class Database:
    def __init__(self):
        self.database = "chat.db"

    def perform_insert(self, sql, params):
        conn = sqlite3.connect(self.database)
        ...

    def perform_select(self, sql, params):
        conn = sqlite3.connect(self.database)
        ...

    # update the rest of your methods to include self where necessary

Now that we have that done, we can import and instantiate the database in our server.py file:

...
from database import Database
...
database = Database()
...

With our database in place, we can go ahead and turn the get_all_users method into an endpoint available...