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You're reading from Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide Develop responsive and powerful GUI applications with PyQt and Tkinter

Product type Course

Published in Jun 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838988470

Length 746 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyQt

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Authors (2):

B. M. Harwani

Alan D. Moore

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Title Page

Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Tkinter FREE CHAPTER

2. Designing GUI Applications with Tkinter

3. Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and ttk Widgets

4. Reducing User Error with Validation and Automation

5. Planning for the Expansion of Our Application

6. Creating Menus with Menu and Tkinter Dialogs

7. Navigating Records with Treeview

8. Improving the Look with Styles and Themes

9. Creating Automated Tests with unittest

10. Improving Data Storage with SQL

11. Connecting to the Cloud

12. Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget

13. Creating a User Interface with Qt Components

14. Event Handling - Signals and Slots

15. Understanding OOP Concepts

16. Understanding Dialogs

17. Understanding Layouts

18. Networking and Managing Large Documents

19. Database Handling

20. Using Graphics

21. Implementing Animation

22. Using Google Maps

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In this chapter, we reached out to the cloud using HTTP and FTP. You learned how to download data using urllib and parse XML using ElementTree. You also discovered the requests library and learned the basics of interacting with a REST API. Finally, we learned how to download and upload files to FTP using Python's ftplib.

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Authors (2)

Alan D. Moore

Alan D. Moore is a data analyst and software developer who has been solving problems with Python since 2006. He's developed both open source and private code using frameworks like Django, Flask, Qt, and of course Tkinter, and is known to contribute to various open-source Python and JavaScript projects. Alan maintains a YouTube channel, “Alan D Moore Codes”, where he posts Python, PyQt, and Tkinter tutorials. Alan lives in Franklin, Tennessee, where he works for the County Government, and with his wife Cara raises a crew of children who are just as geeky as their dad.

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B. M. Harwani

B. M. Harwani is the founder of Microchip Computer Education, based in Ajmer, India, which provides computer literacy in programming and web development to learners of all ages. He further helps the community by sharing the knowledge and expertise he's gained over 20 years of teaching by writing books. His recent publications include jQuery Recipes, published by Apress, Introduction to Python Programming and Developing GUI Applications with PyQT, published by Cengage Learning, The Android Tablet Developer's Cookbook, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, UNIX and Shell Programming, published by Oxford University Press, and Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook, published by Packt.

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