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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

The reStructuredText markup language

Though several markup language options exist, the Python community tends to prefer reStructuredText (RST). The reStructuredText markup language is part of the Python Docutils project, located at http://docutils.sourceforge.net. The Docutils project develops the RST standard and provides utilities for converting RST to formats like PDF, ODT, HTML, and LaTeX.

Document structure

RST is geared toward the creation of structured documents; as such, the first thing we should create is a title for our document. This is denoted using a line of symbols above and below a single line of text, like so:

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The reStructuredText saga
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In this case, we've used the equals sign on either side of the title to denote it as our document title. We can also add a subtitle by adding another line underlined with a different symbol:

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The reStructuredText saga
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