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Python GUI Programming Cookbook. - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781838827540
Pages 486 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Burkhard Meier Burkhard Meier
Profile icon Burkhard Meier

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets Layout Management Look and Feel Customization Data and Classes Matplotlib Charts Threads and Networking Storing Data in Our MySQL Database via Our GUI Internationalization and Testing Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library Building GUIs with PyQt5 Best Practices Other Books You May Enjoy

Using module-level global variables

Encapsulation is a major strength in any programming language, enabling us to program using OOP. Python is both OOP-friendly as well as procedural. We can create global variables that are localized to the module they reside in. They are global only to this module, which is one form of encapsulation. Why do we want this? Because as we add more and more functionality to our GUI, we want to avoid naming conflicts that could result in bugs in our code.

We do not want naming clashes creating bugs in our code! Namespaces are one way to avoid these bugs, and in Python, we can do this by using Python modules (which are unofficial namespaces).

Getting ready

We can declare module-level globals in...

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