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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful GUIs using Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129450
Length 444 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
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Table of Contents (12) 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. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 11. Best Practices

Creating beautiful charts using Matplotlib


This recipe introduces us to the Matplotlib Python module, which enables us to create visual charts using Python 3.6 and above.

The URL, http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html, is a great place to start for exploring the world of Matplotlib, and it teaches us how to create many charts that are not presented in this chapter.

Getting ready

In order to use the Matplotlib Python module, we first have to install this module as well as several other related Python modules.

If you are running a version of Python older than 3.6, I would encourage you to upgrade your version, as we will be using the Python pip module throughout this chapter to install the required Python modules, and pip is installed with 3.6 and above.

Note

It is possible to install pip with the earlier versions of Python 3 but the process is not very intuitive, so it is definitely better to upgrade to 3.6 or above.

How to do it…

The following picture is an example of what incredible graphical...

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