Book Image

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

By : Alan D. Moore
4.5 (2)
Book Image

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)
19
Other Books You May Enjoy
20
Index
Appendices

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the benefits of automated testing and the capabilities provided by Python's unittest library. You learned how to isolate units of code by using Mock and patch() to replace external modules, classes, and functions. You learned strategies for controlling Tkinter's event queue and simulating user input to automate tests of our GUI components, and wrote both unit tests and integration tests against sections of the ABQ application.

In the next chapter, we'll upgrade our backend to use a relational database. In the process, you'll learn about relational database design and data normalization. You'll also learn to work with the PostgreSQL database server and Python's psycopg2 PostgreSQL interface library.