Python GUI Programming
Cookbook
Second Edition
Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful
GUIs using Tkinter
Burkhard A. Meier
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Second Edition
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About the Author
Burkhard A. Meier has more than 17 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
Python 3 software test automation development, as well as 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 five years has been
developing test automation written in Python 3 to test the leading edge of FLIR ONE (now
in its third generation) infrared cameras for iPhone and Android smart phones and
handheld tablets, as well as assuring the quality of FLIR bolometer IR camera platforms.
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, automatically
plotted in 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 FLIR Systems.
You can get in touch with him through his LinkedIn account, h t t p s ://w w w . l i n k e d i n . c o m
/p u b /b u r k h a r d - m e i e r /5/246/296.
I would like to thank all truly great artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Baudelaire,
Edgar Allan 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: Sonali, Anurag, Prashant, Vivek, Arwa, Sumeet, Saurabh,
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'd like to thank my wife, our daughter, and our parents for
the emotional support they provided so successfully during the writing of the second
edition of this book. I'd also like to give thanks to the creator of the very beautiful and
powerful programming language that Python truly is. Thank you Guido.
