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Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from Python GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition Use recipes to develop responsive and powerful GUIs using Tkinter

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129450

Length 444 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Matplotlib

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

Burkhard Meier

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating the GUI Form and Adding Widgets FREE CHAPTER

2. Layout Management

3. Look and Feel Customization

4. Data and Classes

5. Matplotlib Charts

6. Threads and Networking

7. Storing Data in our MySQL Database via our GUI

8. Internationalization and Testing

9. Extending Our GUI with the wxPython Library

10. Creating Amazing 3D GUIs with PyOpenGL and PyGLet

11. Best Practices

Installing and connecting to a MySQL server from Python

Before we can connect to a MySQL database, we have to connect to the MySQL Server. In order to do this, we need to know the IP address of the MySQL server as well as the port it is listening on.

We also have to be a registered user with a password in order to get authenticated by the MySQL server.

Getting ready

You will need to have access to a running MySQL Server instance and you also need to have administrator privileges in order to create databases and tables.

There is a free MySQL Community Edition available from the official MySQL website. You can download and install it on your local PC from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/5.7.html:

During the installation process, you will choose a password for the Root user, and you can also add more users. I recommend you add yourself as a DB Admin and choose a password as well:

Note

In this chapter, we are using the latest MySQL Community Server Release 5.7.17.

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Authors (1)

Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier

Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA. He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course. He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course. In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team. When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.

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