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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 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. Building GUIs with PyQt5 11. Best Practices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Best Practices

In this chapter, we will explore the different best practices that can help us to build our GUI efficiently and keep it both maintainable and extendable.

These best practices will also help you to debug your GUI to get it just the way you want it to be.

Here is the overview of Python modules for this chapter:

Knowing how to code using best practices will greatly enhance your Python programming skills.

The recipes that will be discussed in this chapter are the following:

    • Avoiding spaghetti code
    • Using __init__ to connect modules
    • Mixing fall-down and OOP coding
    • Using a code naming convention
    • When not to use OOP
    • How to use design patterns successfully
    • Avoiding complexity
    • GUI design using multiple notebooks
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