I really need to get my hands on a good number of free Tkinter books.. I want to enter fully into Gui programming..

I guess python 3 doesn't support Tkinter for now, i'll download python 2.5 and continue from where i stopped.

Please gurus in the house- help me out with Tkinter books.. Where can i download them?

Where is your email address so I can mail it to you.
or Better still google for it with this parameter without the quote: "Tkinter ebook filetype:pdf"

talk2hb1: Where is your email address so I can mail it to you.
or Better still google for it with this parameter without the quote: "Tkinter ebook filetype:pdf"

This is my Email:
kascoagu@yahoo.com

thanks dear.. You're a life saver..

dont use tk

you should be looking at Qt versus GTK
though i use Qt cos your apps gets to look native.

Please start using python3 right away, it's healthy for you to look forward always in programming.

handsomeness:
This is my Email:
kascoagu@yahoo.com

thanks dear.. You're a life saver..

I have mailed it to you, check your mail

webdezzi: dont use tk

you should be looking at Qt versus GTK
though i use Qt cos your apps gets to look native.

Please start using python3 right away, it's healthy for you to look forward always in programming.

i use python 3.. But the last time i tried using Tkinter in Python 3 - i encountered error upon error.
Is Qt/GTK compatible with Python 3?
If they are, how do i get books on them? Do you have any?

Thanks Talk2hb1, you're the best.

i use qt cos it comes with a QtCore module which lets you do lots of none-GUI stuff like threading, networking,database etc.
One thing you will figure out along the line is the need to use threads especially when your application needs to carry out tasks at the background like
access the web, decode mp3 files, send message over the network.

This cannot be ignored because, well you app will freeze if you do everything in the main thread
Qt comes with QThread which lets you use the SIGNAL/SLOT mechanism on threads.
the beauty is a lot of stress that come with threading it taken care of.


yes, there is a binary distribution of pyqt
when installing modules, it comes mostly in this format
modulename.1.2-win32-py3.2.exe
you can easily tell this will work on a 32bit windows and on python 3.2 installation

books => http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html

How can i go about it?
Do i need to download PyQT(where)?
Or does it come with Python 3( i tried importing it in my code using python 3, and i got this error- there is no module with that name)?

Just give me step by step guide on how you 'made PyQT to work on your Python 3'..
Thanks in advance.

oops! you are obviously new with python...

module does not exist error is common thing in python, It simply means you have not installed the module you are importing.

now modules are written by contributors like me and you, companies, organizations etc.
all you have to do it google, Please google


"pyQt windows download", when time comes to use it with a 3rd party database, you may want to import mysqldb module
so you get same error, then you google "mysqldb windows download"

if on vista/win7/8, you need to right click on the downloaded module and run as administrator so it can access the python folder and unpack the modules in the right site-packages location.
good luck

and please, always ask google, thats what we all use, no one here is a geek.

webdezzi: oops! you are obviously new with python...

module does not exist error is common thing in python, It simply means you have not installed the module you are importing.

now modules are written by contributors like me and you, companies, organizations etc.
all you have to do it google, Please google


"pyQt windows download", when time comes to use it with a 3rd party database, you may want to import mysqldb module
so you get same error, then you google "mysqldb windows download"

if on vista/win7/8, you need to right click on the downloaded module and run as administrator so it can access the python folder and unpack the modules in the right site-packages location.
good luck

and please, always ask google, thats what we all use, no one here is a geek.

is this the download link :

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download

no, it's not, it's the upload link

webdezzi: no, it's not, it's the upload link

ok. I've downloaded it(about to install it).. What's the next step after i install it?
Do i need to set the path or is there anything else am missing?

handsomeness:
ok. I've downloaded it(about to install it).. What's the next step after i install it?
Do i need to set the path or is there anything else am missing?

once u install it, you should be able to do a

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

google tutorials on pyqt and follow them,

in your start menu folder, there shud be a shortcut to QT designer
that guy will help you with the UI drawings

webdezzi:

once u install it, you should be able to do a


google tutorials on pyqt and follow them,

in your start menu folder, there shud be a shortcut to QT designer
that guy will help you with the UI drawings

well, since it compatible with Python 3.2, i'm very happy. I was just imagining how i'll download Tkinter with python 2.5 and start Gui programming when i've already been learning python 3... Thanks man.. Does PyGTK also support python 3?

Python 3.2 most certainly supports Tkinter, but the module has been renamed to tkinter. Try this:

import tkinter

More info: http://docs.python.org/release/3.2.2/library/tk.html

Seun: Python 3.2 most certainly supports Tkinter, but the module has been renamed to tkinter. Try this:

import tkinter

More info: http://docs.python.org/release/3.2.2/library/tk.html

OMG! Thanks very much..
Oga Seun.
Do you know of any tkinter book that i can use for Python 3.2?
(the one that is compatible with python 3.2- you know python 3 syntax changed alot..)

well, we know NASA uses python
http://code.nasa.gov/language/python/

We know they use PyQT for one of their GUI projects: SunPy
https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy/blob/master/doc/examples/rgb_composite/Ui_RGBComposite.py

read more from Alex Martelli from SO
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-python-at-google

details
http://rapd./2007/11/25/how-python-is-being-used-at-google-companies/

this website, NL also runs on python.
Goodluck

webdezzi: well, we know NASA uses python
http://code.nasa.gov/language/python/

We know they use PyQT for one of their GUI projects: SunPy
https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy/blob/master/doc/examples/rgb_composite/Ui_RGBComposite.py

read more from Alex Martelli from SO
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-python-at-google

details
http://rapd./2007/11/25/how-python-is-being-used-at-google-companies/

this website, NL also runs on python.
Goodluck

i really need a book on PyQt.. one that's compatible with python3.. those am seeing are for python 2.x... help me webdezzi, google didn't help at all..

You can read Python 2 examples and mentally translate them to Python 3. Are you sure the apps you want to build require desktop GUIs?

Seun: You can read Python 2 examples and mentally translate them to Python 3. Are you sure the apps you want to build require desktop GUIs?

yea, very sure - they require destop GUIs..
i can try the BOLDED above.

Seun: You can read Python 2 examples and mentally translate them to Python 3. Are you sure the apps you want to build require desktop GUIs?

Mr Seun plz help me change my NL username to "Evablazze" ...Tnkx