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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

By : Cody Precord
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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

By: Cody Precord

Overview of this book

wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language built on top of the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI libraries. wxPython provides a powerful set of tools that allow you to quickly and efficiently building applications that can run on a variety of different platforms. Since wxWidgets provides a wrapper around each platform’s native GUI toolkit, the applications built with wxPython will have a native look and feel wherever they are deployed. This book will provide you with the skills to build highly functional and native looking user interfaces for Python applications on multiple operating system environments. By working through the recipes, you will gain insights into and exposure to creating applications using wxPython. With a wide range of topics covered in the book, there are recipes to get the most basic of beginners started in GUI programming as well as tips to help experienced users get more out of their applications. The recipes will take you from the most basic application constructs all the way through to the deployment of complete applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
wxPython Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Distributing an application


Once you reach the point of being ready to share your application with others, you will need a way to package it up and ship it out. wxPython applications can be distributed in a similar way to any other Python application or script—by creating a setup.py script and using the distutils module's setup function. However, this recipe focuses on how to build standalone executables for Windows and OS X so that your users don't need to install all the dependencies that your application has from your development environment. This can be accomplished using py2exe on Windows and py2app on OS X. So, in this recipe, we will consider how to make a setup.py script to leverage these tools and generate standalone executables.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have installed the appropriate extension module for your target platform. So, if you haven't already installed either py2exe or py2app for the version of Python and wxPython you are using, do so now.

How to do it...