Putting Things Together with Basic Java GUIs
As promised, we're going to extend the address book application with a GUI front end. For this extension we'll use Address5.py ,which is based on Address4.py from Chapter 8 with a few changes, all within the readAddresses() and writeAddresses() functions. One change is the use of ObjectOutputStream instead of the Python pickle module; another is the introduction of the __repr__ method for the Address class, which allows us to create address objects with eval and makes the printing of dictionaries more meaningful.
As an exercise, run the text_read_write() function in readAddresses() and writeAddresses() in both files. What differences do you notice in the output? How are these differences related to ...
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