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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

Avoiding spaghetti code

In this recipe, we will explore a typical way to create spaghetti code and then we will see a much better way of how to avoid such code.

Spaghetti code is code in which a lot of functionality is intertangled.

Getting ready

We will create a new, simple GUI, written in Python using the built-in Python tkinkter library.

How to do it...

Having searched online and read the documentation, we might start by writing the following code to create our GUI:

GUI_Spaghetti.py

# Spaghetti Code ############################# 
def PRINTME(me):print(me)
import tkinter
x=y=z=1
PRINTME(z)
from tkinter import ...
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