Python GUI Programming Cookbook
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Credits
Author
Burkhard A. Meier
Reviewers
Joy Bindroo
Peter Bouda
Joseph Rex
Commissioning Editor
Nadeem Bagban
Acquisition Editor
Vivek Anantharaman
Content Development Editor
Sumeet Sawant
Technical Editor
Pramod Kumavat
Copy Editor
Janbal Dharmaraj
Project Coordinator
Shweta H. Birwatkar
Proofreader
Sas Editing
Indexer
Priya Sane
Graphics
Kirk Dpenha
Production Coordinator
Komal Ramchandani
Cover Work
Komal Ramchandani
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About the Author
Burkhard A. Meier has more than 15 years of professional experience working in the
software industry as a software tester and developer, specializing in software test automation
development, execution, and analysis. He has a very strong background in SQL relational
database administration, the development of stored procedures, and debugging code.
While experienced in Visual Studio .NET C#, Visual Test, TestComplete, and other testing
languages (such as C/C++), the main focus of the author over the past two years has been
developing test automation written in Python 3 to test the leading edge of FLIR ONE infrared
cameras for iPhone and Android smart phones as well as handheld tablets.
Being highly appreciative of art, beauty, and programming, the author developed GUIs in C# and
Python to streamline everyday test automation tasks, enabling these automated tests to run
unattended for weeks, collecting very useful data to be analyzed and automatically plotted into
graphs and e-mailed to upper management upon completion of nightly automated test runs.
His previous jobs include working as a senior test automation engineer and designer for
InfoGenesis (now Agilysys), QAD, InTouch Health, and presently, FLIR Systems.
You can get in touch with him through his LinkedIn account, https://www.linkedin.com/
pub/burkhard-meier/5/246/296
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I would like to thank all truly great artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles
Baudelaire, Edgar Poe, and so many more for bringing the presence of beauty
into our human lives. This book is about creating very beautiful GUIs written
in the Python programming language, and it was inspired by these truly great
artists.
I would like to thank all of the great people that made this book possible.
Without any of you, this book would only exist in my mind. I would like to
especially thank all of my editors at Packt Publishing: Vivek, Arwa, Sumeet,
Pramod, Nikhil and so many more. I would also like to thank all of the
reviewers of the code of this book. Without them this book would be harder
to read and apply to real-world problems. Last but not least, I like to thank my
wife, our daughter, and our parents for the emotional support they provided
so successfully during the writing of this book. I also like to give thanks to the
creator of this very beautiful and powerful programming language that Python
truly is. Thank you Guido.
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