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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python GUI Programming Cookbook Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283758
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st 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. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet 11. Best Practices Index

Configuring the MySQL connection


In the previous recipe, we used the shortest way to connect to a MySQL server by hard-coding the credentials required for authentication into the connection method. While this is a fast approach for early development, we definitely do not want to expose our MySQL server credentials to anybody unless we grant permission to databases, tables, views, and related database commands to specific users.

A much safer way to get authenticated by a MySQL server is by storing the credentials in a configuration file, which is what we will do in this recipe.

We will use our configuration file to connect to the MySQL server and then create our own database on the MySQL server.

Note

We will use this database in all of the following recipes.

Getting ready

Access to a running MySQL server with administrator privileges is required to run the code shown in this recipe.

Note

The previous recipe shows how to install the free Community Edition of MySQL Server. The administrator privileges...

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