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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example
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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

by David Love
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
340 pages
7h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting going

Now that we have the basic understanding of the concept of widgets and how to add them into a window, it's time to put this into practice and make ourselves an application!

As with almost all programming examples, we will start with a Hello World application. Don't feel cheated though, it will have interactive aspects too! Let's begin with the most important step for any GUI application—showing a window. Start by opening your choice of text editor or IDE and putting in the following code:

import tkinter as tkclass Window(tk.Tk):  def __init__(self):    super().__init__()    self.title("Hello Tkinter")    label = tk.Label(self, text="Hello World!")    label.pack(fill=tk.BOTH, expand=1, padx=100, pady=50)if __name__ == "__main__": window = ...
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