Client 4—An Interactive Command Processor
The next client is an interactive command processor. The basic Python language distribution does not include any tools for building graphical applications. Instead, you can add GUI toolkits to Python based on your needs. If you don't need graphics, you won't have to weigh down your application with extra code. If you do need graphics in your application, you can choose the toolkit best suited to your requirements.
We'll use the Tkinter toolkit for our command processor. If you read the previous chapter, you know that Tk is a portable toolkit originally designed for the Tcl language. Tkinter is a Python wrapper around the Tk graphics toolkit. Using Tkinter, you can create and manipulate Tk widgets (buttons, ...
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