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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints - Second Edition

By : Bhaskar Chaudhary
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints - Second Edition

By: Bhaskar Chaudhary

Overview of this book

Tkinter is the built-in GUI package that comes with standard Python distributions. It is a cross-platform package, which means you build once and deploy everywhere. It is simple to use and intuitive in nature, making it suitable for programmers and non-programmers alike. This book will help you master the art of GUI programming. It delivers the bigger picture of GUI programming by building real-world, productive, and fun applications such as a text editor, drum machine, game of chess, audio player, drawing application, piano tutor, chat application, screen saver, port scanner, and much more. In every project, you will build on the skills acquired in the previous project and gain more expertise. You will learn to write multithreaded programs, network programs, database-driven programs, asyncio based programming and more. You will also get to know the modern best practices involved in writing GUI apps. With its rich source of sample code, you can build upon the knowledge gained with this book and use it in your own projects in the discipline of your choice.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using asyncio with Tkinter

Starting with Python 3.4, a new module named asyncio was introduced as a Python standard module.

The term Asyncio is made by adding two words: async + I/O. Async is about concurrency, which means doing more than one thing at a time. I/O, on the other hand, refers to handling I/O bound tasks. A bound task means the thing that keeps your program busy. If, for instance, you are doing computation-intensive math processing, the processor is taking most of the time—and it is, therefore, a CPU bound task. On the contrary, if you are waiting for a result from the network, result from the database, or an input from the user, the task is I/O bound.

So in a nutshell, the asyncio module provides concurrency, particularly for I/O bound tasks. Concurrency ensures that you do not have to wait for I/O bound results.

Let's say you have to fetch content...