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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

PostgreSQL

Python can interact with a wide variety of relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, and SQLite; in this book, we're going to focus on a very popular choice in the Python world, PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL (usually pronounced post-gress, with the "QL" silent) is a free, open source, cross-platform relational database system. It runs as a network service with which you can communicate using client programs or software libraries. At the time of writing, version 13 is the current stable.

Although ABQ has provided a PostgreSQL server that is already installed and configured, you'll need to download and install the software on your workstation for development purposes. Let's take a look at how we can get our workstation ready for PostgreSQL development.

Shared production resources such as databases and web services should never be used for testing or development. Always set up a separate development copy...