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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Python GUI Programming Cookbook

By : Burkhard Meier
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Python GUI Programming Cookbook

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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. Its flexible syntax enables developers to write short scripts while at the same time, they can use object-oriented concepts to develop very large projects. 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 uses the simplest programming style, using the fewest lines of code to create a GUI in Python, and then advances to using object-oriented programming in later chapters. If you are new to object-oriented programming (OOP), this book will teach you how to take advantage of the OOP coding style in the context of creating GUIs written in Python. Throughout the book, you will develop an entire GUI application, building recipe upon recipe, connecting the GUI to a database. In the later chapters, you will explore additional Python GUI frameworks, using best practices. You will also learn how to use threading to ensure your GUI doesn’t go unresponsive. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in Python GUI programming to develop a common set of GUI applications.
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Changing the entire GUI language all at once


In this recipe, we will change the entire GUI display names all at once by refactoring all the previously hard-coded English strings into a separate Python module and then internationalizing those strings.

This recipe shows that it is a good design principle to avoid hard-coding any strings that our GUI displays but to separate the GUI code from the text that the GUI displays.

Note

Designing our GUI in a modular way makes internationalizing it much easier.

Getting ready

We will continue to use the GUI from the previous recipe. In that recipe, we had already internationalized the title of the GUI.

How to do it...

In order to internationalize the text being displayed in all of our GUI widgets, we have to move all hard-coded strings into a separate Python module, and this is what we do next.

Previously, strings of words that our GUI displayed were scattered all over our Python code.

Here is what our GUI looked like without I18N.

Every single string of every...

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