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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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Graphing with Tkinter

Tkinter is not a graphing tool. However, should you need to draw graphs with Tkinter, you can use the Canvas widget to draw graphs.

In this iteration, we will draw the following graphs:

  • Pie chart (7.13_pie_chart.py)
  • Bar graph ( 7.14_bar_graph.py)
  • Scatter plot (7.15_scatter_plot.py)

The three graphs show up as follows:

Graphing with Tkinter

Let's look at the pie chart first. You can easily create a pie chart in Tkinter using the Canvas widget's create_arc method.

The create_arc method has the following signature:

item_id = canvas.create_arc(x1, y1, x2, y2, option, ...)

Point (x1, y1) is the top-left corner and point (x2, y2) is the bottom-right corner of ...

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