Chapter 5. GUI Programming

GUI stuff is supposed to be hard. It builds character.

—Jim Ahlstrom, May 1995(verbally at Python Workshop)

In this chapter...

• Introduction

• Tkinter and Python Programming

• Tkinter Examples

• A Brief Tour of Other GUIs

• Related Modules and Other GUIs

In this chapter, we will give you a brief introduction to the subject of graphical user interface (GUI) programming. If you are somewhat new to this area or want to learn more about it, or if you want to see how it is done in Python, then this chapter is for you. We cannot show you everything about GUI application development in this one chapter, but we will give you a very solid introduction to it. The primary GUI toolkit we will be using is Tk, Python’s default GUI. ...

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