Building a basic GUI application step-by-step Python

In this page you will learn to build a basic GUI application in Python step by step.

The aim is:

• Mastering most common GUI techniques (widgets layout, GUI constraints, event binding, etc.)
• Understanding each and every single method and parameter used here.
• See two different major GUI toolkit and learn their differences.
• Serve as a basis for building your own GUI applications.

You will learn basic tips:

• building a GUI application class,
• creating widgets,
• laying them in containers,
• attaching and handling events,
• manipulating widgets values,
• etc.

Our constraints for this document:

• Do the same thing with Tkinter (the standard GUI toolkit provided with Python) and wxPython (an advanced, portable, popular GUI toolkit).
• Program it the right way
• Use plain english
• Explicit is better than implicit  ;-)

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