Python GUI Programming Cookbook · 2nd Edition

Key Features Based on the latest current version of Python, 3.6 Carefully organized instructions to solve problems efficiently Solutions that can be applied to solve real-world problems Book Description

Explore the beautiful world of GUI development using the Python programming language. You will learn how easy it is to get started and you might be surprised how advanced you can become in just a short time of coding. GUI development using Python is not a very well-known subject. The built-in tkinter GUI framework was limited, but with the latest versions of Python 3 and tkinter all of this has dramatically changed, giving us new possibilities to explore in the world of GUI.

This book will guide you from the very basics of creating a fully functional GUI in Python with only a few lines of code. Each and every recipe adds more widgets to the GUIs we are creating. While the cookbook recipes all stand on their own, there is a common theme running through all of them. As our GUIs keep expanding, using more and more widgets, we start to talk to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance our GUI’s functionality. This book is what you need to expand your knowledge on the subject of GUIs, and make sure you’re not missing out in the long run.

What you will learn Create the GUI Form and add widgets Arrange the widgets using layout managers Use object-oriented programming to create GUIs Create Matplotlib charts Use threads and talking to networks Talk to a MySQL database via the GUI Perform unit-testing and internationalizing the GUI Extend the GUI with third-party graphical libraries Get to know the best practices to create GUIs About the Author

Burkhard A. Meier has more than 15 years of professional experience working in the software industry as a software tester and developer, specializing in software test automation development, execution, and analysis. He has a very strong background in SQL relational database administration, the development of stored procedures, and debugging code.

While experienced in Visual Studio .NET C#, Visual Test, TestComplete, and other testing languages (such as C/C ), his main focus over the past two years has been developing test automation written in Python 3 to test the leading edge of FLIR ONE infrared cameras for iPhone and Android smart phones as well as handheld tablets.

Being highly appreciative of art, beauty, and programming, he developed GUIs in C# and Python to streamline everyday test automation tasks, enabling these automated tests to run unattended for weeks, collecting very useful data to be analyzed and automatically plotted into graphs and e-mailed to upper management upon completion of nightly automated test runs.