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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Burkhard Meier
Book Image

Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Burkhard Meier

Overview of this book

Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language. It is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It is often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and compatibility with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create beautiful and very effective GUIs with the least amount of code necessary. This book will guide you through the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI in Python with only a few lines of code. Each and every recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. While the cookbook recipes all stand on their own, there is a common theme running through all of them. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI’s functionality. This book is what you need to expand your knowledge on the subject of GUIs, and make sure you’re not missing out in the long run.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


In this chapter, we will introduce another Python GUI toolkit that currently does not ship with Python. It is called wxPython.

There are two versions of this library. The original is called Classic, while the newest is called by its development project code name, which is Phoenix.

In this book, we are solely programming using Python 3.6 and above, and because the new Phoenix project is aimed at supporting Python 3.6 and above, this is the version of wxPython we will use in this chapter.

First, we will create a simple wxPython GUI, and then we will try to connect both of the tkinter-based GUIs we developed in this book with the new wxPython library.

Note

wxPython is a Python binding to wxWidgets. The w in wxPython stands for the Windows OS and the x stands for Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and Apple's OS X (now renamed Mac OS).

If things don't work out using these two GUI toolkits in unison, we will attempt to use Python to solve any problems and, if necessary, we will...