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Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Tkinter GUI Application Development Cookbook A practical solution to your GUI development problems with Python and Tkinter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622301
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alejandro Rodas de Paz Alejandro Rodas de Paz
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tkinter FREE CHAPTER 2. Window Layout 3. Customizing Widgets 4. Dialogs and Menus 5. Object-Oriented Programming and MVC 6. Asynchronous Programming 7. Canvas and Graphics 8. Themed Widgets 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Performing HTTP requests

Communicating your application with a remote server via HTTP is a common use case of asynchronous programming. The client performs a request, which is transferred across the network using the TCP/IP protocol; then, the server processes the information and sends the response back to the client.

The time to perform this operation might vary from a few milliseconds to several seconds, but in most cases it is safe to assume that this latency may be noticed by your users.

Getting ready

There are plenty of third-party web services on the internet that can be freely accessed for prototyping purposes. However, we do not want to rely on an external service because its API may change or it might even go offline...

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