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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 2. Text Management 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

Python comes with a feature that is rarely shipped with a programming language: a built-in graphical user interface (GUI) library.

Python ships with a working version of the Tk widgets toolkit, which can be controlled through the tkinter module provided by the standard library.

The Tk toolkit actually is used through a simple language called Tcl. All Tk widgets can be controlled through the Tcl commands.

Most of these commands are very simple, and take the following form:

classname widgetid options

For example, something such as the following would lead to a button (identified as mybutton) with a red "click here" text:

button .mybutton -fg red  -text "click here"

As those commands are usually relatively simple, Python ships with a built-in Tcl interpreter and uses it to drive the Tk widgets.

Nowadays, nearly everyone, even the more hardcore...

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