I thought Python is only console screen, today I discovered that Python has GUI library called TKinter.

Example code:


How many here know Tkinter, and use it?

Is it a standard and universal lib across various versions of Python?

Example output of code above:

Wait till you meet WxPython

tkinter is the first GUI everyone uses when they learn python

but i dont use it much because i use python more as script for automation

Thanks for telling me this, I will stick to Tkinter in the mean time.

9 Nov 2010

From the article "Choosing wxPython over Tkinter" - wiki.wxpython.org

Alright, so finally I am like every Python beginner, get the chance to learn first GUI in Python.

I know about it but I'm not using it. I prefer to use GTK with python when I was using Linux as my main OS. Now I don't do desktop UI anymore.

Will always convince user use web app.
Only create desktop gui app when have to.

I use tkinter because lazy to install other ui library.
It enough to solve the problem -
create a gui interface for user could use the software easily.

what IDE do you use ? for python and for others

I use Visual Studio 2022 to code for Python project.

Good to know about your feedback. I think GTK is more about screen layout in XML script. Hmm.


Other UI libraries like wxPython, from my quick web search, are extension to be installed separately.
It is good that Tkinter comes bundled with the Python installation itself.

The XML template is a facility, you can always build the UI using python code. E.g: (if I remember correctly)

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There seems like no way to define struct like this in Python:


How to do it in Python? Currently I use bytearray in which I cannot assign meaningful name to each value.

This post has been edited by angch: Jun 16 2022, 04:44 PM

Perfect, although it is a little difficult for beginner.

I can also use:


Thanks angch.

Nowadays you'd do this with dataclass

Learned something new again, but this dataclass is not part of default installation:

So I think I will strike a balance between your solution and angch's, hehe:



This works exactly what I want.

Don't tell me you're still using python2 which is supposed to be dead. dataclass is part of python since 3.7.

Invision doesn't have history, but if it had, you'd see that that was exactly what I posted before I edited it for completeness. Depends on what you wanna do, but please don't reinvent your favourite language in other languages. (e.g. expecting low level typing over what's canonical in that language).

When in Python, do it the Pythonic way. Use dataclasses, it's cleaner. Apologies for not using it earlier, Python isn't my main language.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html

This post has been edited by angch: Jun 19 2022, 08:16 PM

Mine is 3.6, the version downloaded automatically by Visual Studio 2022.

Thank you for revealing to me there is dataclass. Your recent participation in my discussion topic is very much appreciated.

Looks like dataclasses (according the link you posted) has built-in __init__, in which your first example code defined it manually.
At least now I know there are two ways to define struct (like that of C#) in Python. Your diligence in answering many of the coding questions is also much appreciated.

It's not only two, they're other ways.

For example, you can also use namedtuple & dict