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You're reading from Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful GUIs using Tkinter

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129450

Length 444 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Matplotlib

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

Burkhard Meier

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets FREE CHAPTER

2. Layout Management

3. Look and Feel Customization

4. Data and Classes

5. Matplotlib Charts

6. Threads and Networking

7. Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI

8. Internationalization and Testing

9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library

10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet

11. Best Practices

Creating our first chart

Now that we have all the required Python modules installed, we can create our own charts using Matplotlib.

We can create charts from only a few lines of Python code.

Getting ready

Successfully installing Matplotlib, as shown in the previous recipe, is a requirement for this recipe.

How to do it…

Using the minimum amount of code, as presented on the official Matplotlib website, we can create our first chart. Well, almost. The sample code shown on the website does not work until we import the show function from pylab and then call it:

Matplotlib_our_first_chart.py

How it works…

The Python Matplotlib module, combined with add-ons such as numpy, creates a very rich programming environment...

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Authors (1)

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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