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Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Burkhard Meier
Book Image

Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Burkhard Meier

Overview of this book

Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language that is easy to learn and implement. With its wide support for frameworks to develop GUIs, you can build interactive and beautiful GUI-based applications easily using Python. This third edition of Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create effective GUIs with the smallest amount of code. Every recipe in this book builds upon the last to create an entire, real-life GUI application. These recipes also help you solve problems that you might encounter while developing GUIs. This book mainly focuses on using Python’s built-in tkinter GUI framework. You'll learn how to create GUIs in Python using simple programming styles and object-oriented programming (OOP). As you add more widgets and expand your GUI, you will learn how to connect to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance the functionality of your GUI. You’ll also learn how to use threading to ensure that your GUI doesn't become unresponsive. Toward the end, you’ll learn about the versatile PyQt GUI framework, which comes along with its own visual editor that allows you to design GUIs using drag and drop features. By the end of the book, you’ll be an expert in designing Python GUIs and be able to develop a variety of GUI applications with ease.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Building a modular GUI design

As we saw in the previous recipe, all of the auto generated code of the UI we are designing with the Designer will be overwritten as soon as we rerun the pyuic5 utility. This is a good thing because it encourages us to design our Python modules in a modular fashion (hence the name module).

In this recipe, we will import the generated UI from a new Python module and add functionality within it. Whenever we rerun the pyuic5 utility, our code will not get accidentally overwritten, because we are separating the logic from the UI.

Separation of Concerns (SoC) is a software term that refers to the benefits of good, modular design.

So, let's write some code!

Getting ready

You will need the converted...