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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition - Second Edition

By : Alan D. Moore
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, 2nd edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Alan D. Moore

Overview of this book

Tkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python due to its simplicity. In this book, you’ll discover Tkinter’s strengths and overcome its challenges as you learn to develop fully featured GUI applications. Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, Second Edition, will not only provide you with a working knowledge of the Tkinter GUI library, but also a valuable set of skills that will enable you to plan, implement, and maintain larger applications. You’ll build a full-blown data entry application from scratch, learning how to grow and improve your code in response to continually changing user and business needs. You’ll develop a practical understanding of tools and techniques used to manage this evolving codebase and go beyond the default Tkinter widget capabilities. You’ll implement version control and unit testing, separation of concerns through the MVC design pattern, and object-oriented programming to organize your code more cleanly. You’ll also gain experience with technologies often used in workplace applications, such as SQL databases, network services, and data visualization libraries. Finally, you’ll package your application for wider distribution and tackle the challenge of maintaining cross-platform compatibility.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index
Appendices

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to write Python software that works well across multiple platforms. You learned how to avoid common platform pitfalls in Python code such as filesystem differences and library support, and how to write software that intelligently adapts to the needs of different operating systems. You also learned about published guidelines that help developers write software that meets platform users' expectations, and you used these guidelines to create platform-specific menus for ABQ Data Entry.

In the next chapter, we're going to learn about automated testing. You'll learn to write tests that ensure your code works correctly, both for regular Python code and specifically for Tkinter code, and to take advantage of the testing framework included in the Python standard library.