The root window – your drawing board
GUI programming is an art, and like all art, you need a drawing board to capture your ideas. The drawing board that you will use is called the root window. Our first goal is to get the root window ready.
The following screenshot depicts the root window that we are going to create:
Drawing the root window is easy. You just need the following three lines of code:
from tkinter import * root = Tk() root.mainloop()
Save this with the .py file extension or check out the 1.01.py code. Open it in the IDLE window and run the program from the Run menu (F5 in IDLE). Running this program should generate a blank root window, ...
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