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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

Displaying widget text in different languages


The easiest way to internationalize text strings in Python is by moving them into a separate Python module and then selecting the language to be displayed in our GUI by passing in a parameter to this module.

While this approach is not highly recommended, according to online search results, depending on the specific requirements of the application you are developing, this approach might still be the most pragmatic and fastest to implement.

Getting ready

We will reuse the Python GUI we created earlier. We have commented out one line of Python code that creates the MySQL tab because we do not talk to a MySQL database in this chapter.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will start the I18N of our GUI by changing the Windows title from English to another language.

As the name GUI is the same in other languages, we will first expand the name which enables us to see the visual effects of our changes.

The following was our previous line of code:

self.win.title...
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