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Burkhard Meier
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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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Building a modular GUI design

As we saw in the previous recipe, all of the auto generated code of the UI we are designing with the Designer will be overwritten as soon as we rerun the pyuic5 utility. This is a good thing because it encourages us to design our Python modules in a modular fashion (hence the name module).

In this recipe, we will import the generated UI from a new Python module and add functionality within it. Whenever we rerun the pyuic5 utility, our code will not get accidentally overwritten, because we are separating the logic from the UI.

Separation of Concerns (SoC) is a software term that refers to the benefits of good, modular design.

So, let's write some code!

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Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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