wxPython Recipes: A Problem - Solution Approach

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Mike DriscollwxPython Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3237-8_4

4. The Publish–Subscribe Pattern

Mike Driscoll¹ 

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Ankeny, New York, USA

 

Recipe 4-1. An Intro to Pubsub

Problem

The Publish-Subscribe (PubSub) pattern is a common design pattern in computer science that is used to communicate with different parts of your application. The basic idea for this is that you will create one or more listeners that are known as subscribers. The subscribers are listening for a specific message type that you can send via your publisher.

The wxPython GUI toolkit includes an implementation of the Publish-Subscribe pattern in wx.lib.pubsub.

Solution

I always find it helpful to actually write some code and see how all these various pieces ...