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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

Getting started with the data grid


The Grid control provides a spreadsheet-like display of data using a separate data source that provides the data to the Grid control. The Grid control in wxPython is a generic widget used to display tabular data. In this recipe, we will explore some of the basic capabilities of the grid control by creating a grid that can be used to edit CSV-formatted files.

Getting ready

This recipe will assume some basic familiarity with the PyGridTableBase class that was discussed in the previous recipe, Implementing a data source; so, ensure that you take a quick review of the preceding recipe before getting into this one.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform in this recipe:

  1. First, we will use a couple of extra imports from the standard library to help out in this recipe, so let's add them in, as follows:

    import csv
    from StringIO import StringIO
    import wx
    import wx.grid as gridlib
  2. Next, let's start on the data source for the grid by defining the following...