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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

Designing the Python GUI database


Before we start creating tables and inserting data into them we have to design the database. Unlike changing local Python variable names, changing a database schema once it has been created and loaded with data is not that easy.

We would have to DROP the table, which means we would lose all the data that was in the table. So, before dropping a table, we would have to extract the data, then DROP the table, and recreate it under a different name and finally reimport the original data.

You get the picture…

Designing our GUI MySQL database means first thinking about what we want our Python application to do with it and then choose names for our tables that match the intended purpose.

Getting ready

We are working with the MySQL database we created in the previous recipe. A running instance of MySQL is necessary and the two previous recipes show how to install MySQL and all necessary additional drivers, as well as how to create the database we are using in this chapter...

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