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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using Tkinter to create graphical user interfaces


We will create a basic GUI to allow the user to enter information, and the program can then be used to encrypt and decrypt it.

Getting ready

You must ensure that this file is placed in the same directory.

Note

Since we are using Tkinter (one of many available add-ons for Python), we need to ensure that it is installed. It should be installed by default on the standard Raspbian image. We can confirm it is installed by importing it from the Python prompt, as follows:

 

   Python3   >>> import tkinter

If it is not installed, an ImportError exception will be raised, in which case you can install it using the following command (use CtrlZ to exit the Python prompt):

   sudo apt-get install python3-tk

If the module did load, you can use the following command to read more about the module (use Q to quit when you are done reading):

   >>>help(tkinter)

You can also get information about all the classes, functions, and methods within the...