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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding the GUI elements for weather download

The Application object now needs to connect the weather download method from network.py to the database method in SQLModel with an appropriate callback method that the main menu classes can call. Follow these steps:

  1. Open application.py and start a new method as follows:
    def update_weather_data(self):

      try:
           weather_data = n.get_local_weather(
               self.settings['weather_station'].get())
  1. Recall that in an error scenario, urlopen() can raise any number of exceptions, depending on what went wrong with the HTTP transaction. There isn't really anything the application can do to handle such exceptions other than inform the user and exit the method. Therefore, we'll catch the generic Exception and display ...
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