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Learn Web Development with Python
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Learn Web Development with Python

by Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
796 pages
19h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running Python as a GUI application

Python can also be run as a graphical user interface (GUI). There are several frameworks available, some of which are cross-platform and some others are platform-specific. In Chapter 12, GUIs and Scripts, we'll see an example of a GUI application created using Tkinter, which is an object-oriented layer that lives on top of Tk (Tkinter means Tk interface).

Tk is a GUI toolkit that takes desktop application development to a higher level than the conventional approach. It is the standard GUI for Tool Command Language (Tcl), but also for many other dynamic languages, and it can produce rich native applications that run seamlessly under Windows, Linux, macOS X, and more.

Tkinter comes bundled with Python; therefore, ...

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