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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

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Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA.nHe is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course.nHe is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course.nIn his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team.nWhen not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets FREE CHAPTER 2. Layout Management 3. Look and Feel Customization 4. Data and Classes 5. Matplotlib Charts 6. Threads and Networking 7. Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI 8. Internationalization and Testing 9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library 10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 11. Best Practices Index

How to install the wxPython library

The wxPython library does not ship with Python, so, in order to use it, we first have to install it.

This recipe will show us where and how to find the right version to install to match both the installed version of Python and the operating system we are running.

Note

The wxPython third-party library has been around for more than 17 years, which indicates that it is a robust library.

Getting ready

In order to use wxPython with Python 3, we have to install the wxPython Phoenix version.

How to do it...

When searching online for wxPython, we will probably find the official website at www.wxpython.org.

If we click on the download link for MS Windows, we can see several Windows installers, all of which are for Python 2.x only.

To use wxPython with Python 3, we have to install the wxPython/Phoenix library. We can find the installer at the snapshot-builds link:

http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/

From here, we can select the wxPython/Phoenix version that matches...

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Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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