You're reading from Mastering GUI Programming with Python Develop impressive cross-platform GUI applications with PyQt

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789612905

Length 542 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyQt

Concepts

GUI Application Development

Author (1):

Alan D. Moore

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To get the most out of this book

The reader is expected to have proficiency in the Python language, particularly Python 3. You should understand, at least in a basic sense, how to work with classes and object-oriented programming. You may find it helpful to have a passing familiarity with C++, since most of the available Qt documentation is aimed at that language.

You should have a computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux on which Python 3.7 has been installed, and on which you can install other software as needed. You should have a code editor and command-line shell with which you are comfortable. Finally, you should have access to the internet.

Each chapter of this book contains one or more example applications. Although these examples are available for download, you are encouraged to follow along, creating these applications by hand to see the intermediate stages as the applications come together.

Each chapter also contains a series of questions or a suggested project to cement your knowledge of the topic, and a selection of resources for further study on the topic. You will get the most out of each chapter if you engage your mind and creativity in solving these problems and reading the provided materials.

The code included in this book is released under the open source MIT license, which allows you to re-use the code as you see fit, provided you retain the included copyright notices. You are encouraged to use, modify, improve, and re-publish these programs.

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-GUI-Programming-with-Python/tree/master. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

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We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789612905_ColorImages.pdf.

Code in action

Visit the following link to check out videos of the code being run: http://bit.ly/2M3QVrl

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "HTML documents are built hierarchically, with the outermost tag usually being <html>."

A block of code is set as follows:

<table border=2>
      <thead>
        <tr bgcolor='grey'><th>System</th><th>Graphics</th><th>Sound</th></tr>
      </thead>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<table border=2>
      <thead>
        <tr bgcolor='grey'><th>System</th><th>Graphics</th><th>Sound</th></tr>
      </thead>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ python game_lobby.py
Font is Totally Nonexistent Font Family XYZ
Actual font used is Bitstream Vera Sans

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.