Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Avoiding spaghetti code

In this recipe, we will explore a typical way to create spaghetti code and then we will see a much better way of how to avoid such code.

Note

Spaghetti code is code in which a lot of functionality is intertangled.

Getting ready

We will create a new, simple GUI written in Python using the tkinter built-in Python library.

How to do it...

Having searched online and read the documentation, we might start by writing the following code to create our GUI:

# Spaghetti Code ############################# def PRINTME(me):print(me) import tkinter x=y=z=1 PRINTME(z) from tkinter import * scrolW=30;scrolH=6 win=tkinter.Tk() if x:chVarUn=tkinter.IntVar() from tkinter import ttk WE='WE' import tkinter.scrolledtext outputFrame=tkinter.ttk.LabelFrame(win,text=' ...