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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Develop functional and responsive user interfaces with tkinter and PyQt5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838827540
Length 486 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets 2. Layout Management FREE CHAPTER 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. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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