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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

by Bhaskar Chaudhary
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a Weather Reporter

Let's now build a simple Weather Reporter application. The Weather data for any given location will be fetched from the network, suitably formatted and presented to the user.

We will use a higher-level module named urllib to fetch Weather data from the web. The urllib module is part of Python's standard library and it provides an easy to use API to work with URLs. It has four submodules:

  • urllib.request – for opening and reading URLs
  • urllib.error – for handling exceptions raised by urllib.request
  • urllib.parse – for parsing URLs
  • urllib.robotparser – for parsing robots.txt files

With urllib.request, fetching the contents of a web page turns into a three-line code (see code 7.06_urllib_demo.py):

import urllib.request with urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.packtpub.com/') ...
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