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Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers

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Bought the book yesterday and haven't finished it but so far I'm enjoying it. I realize that much of this content it available at tkdocs.com, a site I have visited many times in the past, but this format is superior in terms of focusing on python (my interest) and greater thoroughness and references. I have spent countless hours searching the web for modern best practices and packages regarding tkinter on python. At last I have high hopes that this book will significantly curtail those searches. So far I've only run into one technical problem - looks like some ruby code got accidentally inserted in section 4.3 which could really be confusing to an early learner. I'll report back if I see more troubles. Thanks to Mr. Roseman.

After reading the brief description here, I was unsure what the book actually covered. The hint is in the last line of the description, referring to the tkdocs website.

If you go to tkdocs home, near the top, select the tutorial tab. You'll see the contents for the book which covers Perl,Tcl,Ruby, and Python usage.

To view the contents with only one language usage, e.g. to see only Python usage, go to the Tutorial section on the right side, find the Show dropdown list, and select Python. The links that appear immediately below this will now view the Tutorial with only the Python usage. I think this is the same content as appears in the Kindle edition.

I've worked through a couple of other Python/Tk (Tkinter) tutorials, and will view this one next. It looks very useful. Besides the usual tutorial first steps, for each widget, it includes a link to the full language reference. Very valuable when you want to go beyond the basics. You should have a basic understanding of Python before starting.

From the book,

"This tutorial is designed for developers building tools and applications in Tk. It's also concerned with fairly mainstream graphical user interfaces, with buttons, lists, checkboxes, richtext editing, 2D graphics and so on. So if you're either looking to hack on Tk's internal C code, or build the next great 3D immersive game interface, this is probably not the material for you.

This tutorial also doesn't teach you the underlying programming language..."