Rapid GUI Programming
with Python and Qt
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Rapid GUI Programming
with Python and Qt
The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Summerfield, Mark
Rapid GUI programming with Python and Qt : the definitive guide to PyQt programming / Mark
Summerfield.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-13-235418-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Qt (Electronic resource) 2. Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems) 3. Python (Computer
program language) I. Title.
QA76.9.U83S89 2007
005.1’2—dc22
2007034852
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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-235418-9
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First printing, October 2007
