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Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

You're reading from   Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators Write scripts and automate them for real-world administration tasks using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133226
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Preface 1. Python Scripting Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging and Profiling Python Scripts 3. Unit Testing - Introduction to the Unit Testing Framework 4. Automating Regular Administrative Activities 5. Handling Files, Directories, and Data 6. File Archiving, Encrypting, and Decrypting 7. Text Processing and Regular Expressions 8. Documentation and Reporting 9. Working with Various Files 10. Basic Networking - Socket Programming 11. Handling Emails Using Python Scripting 12. Remote Monitoring of Hosts Over Telnet and SSH 13. Building Graphical User Interfaces 14. Working with Apache and Other Log Files 15. SOAP and REST API Communication 16. Web Scraping - Extracting Useful Data from Websites 17. Statistics Gathering and Reporting 18. MySQL and SQLite Database Administrations 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 13, Building Graphical User Interfaces

  1. Graphical User Interface, which allows a user to interact with electronic devices.
  2. A constructor is a special type of method (function) that is used to initialize the instance members of the class. Implementation of the__init__ method. A destructor is a special method called automatically during the destruction of an object. Implementation of the__del__ method.
  3. Self is an object reference to the object itself; therefore, they are the same.
  4. Tkinter is a Python binding to the Tk GUI toolkit. It is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit, and is Python's de facto standard GUI. Tkinter is included with standard Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS X installs of Python. The name Tkinter comes from the Tk interface. PyQt is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, implemented as a Python plugin. PyQt is free...
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