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Learning Python Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Python Application Development Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889196
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ninad Sathaye Ninad Sathaye
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing Simple Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Dealing with Exceptions 3. Modularize, Package, Deploy! 4. Documentation and Best Practices 5. Unit Testing and Refactoring 6. Design Patterns 7. Performance – Identifying Bottlenecks 8. Improving Performance – Part One 9. Improving Performance – Part Two, NumPy and Parallelization 10. Simple GUI Applications Index

GUI programming with Tkinter


As mentioned earlier, a GUI provides a way to interact with an application. Instead of a text-based input, the user is presented with elements such as text boxes, radio buttons, tool bars, and so on. This section will introduce you to the basics of GUI programming with Tkinter. This library is available as a standard module in Python.

Tkinter documentation links

Let's document some links for a handy reference. The official Tkinter documentation page can be found at https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html#module-tkinter. This page lists several external references. A good introduction is available at http://effbot.org/tkinterbook. Of course, you can always perform a web search with search terms like python and Tkinter to find more resources.

Alternatively, you can quickly find the supported functionality and documentation using the Python interpreter!

>>> import tkinter
>>> dir(tkinter)

The preceding command lists the supported classes, functions...

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