Provides a real-world code that does real work: no toy examples. Documents Tkinter in a reference section that is helpful and easy to use. Softcover.

I first encountered Python in 1993 when I joined a small company in Rhode Island. Their primary product was a GUI-builder for X/Motif that generated code for C, C++, Ada and Python. I was tasked with extending the object-oriented interface for X/Motif and Python. In the past I’d become skeptical about the use of interpretive languages, so I began the task with little excitement. Two days later I was hooked. It was easy to develop interfaces that would have taken much more time and code to develop in C. Soon after, I began to choose interfaces developed using the Python interface in preference to compiled C code.

After I left the company in Rhode Island, I began to develop applications using Tkinter, which had become the preeminent GUI for Python. I persuaded one company, where I was working on contract, to use Python to build a code-generator to help complete a huge project that was in danger of overrunning time and budget. The project was a success. Four years later there are many Python programmers in that company and some projects now use Tkinter and Python for a considerable part of their code.