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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)

Using padding to add space around widgets

Our GUI is coming along nicely. Next, we will improve the visual aspects of our widgets by adding a little space around them so that they can breathe.

Getting ready

While tkinter might have had a reputation for creating not-so-pretty GUIs, this has dramatically changed since version 8.5.

To better understand the major improvements to Tk, the following is a quote from the official website; you can find it at the following link: https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/onepage.html:

"This tutorial is designed to help people get up to speed quickly with building mainstream desktop graphical user interfaces with Tk, and in particular Tk 8.5 and 8.6. Tk 8.5 was an incredibly significant milestone...