Chapter 17 Introducing the Python GUI

I reshot some head [pictures] today. I have to tell you, pythons do not like to behave for closeups of their heads. It was a battle all the way, but no serious lacerations to either them or me.

—John Hollister

Figures

Figure 1.

Example Programs

There is one example program for chapter 17: download chapter17.zip.

ave.py

Exercises

Mark Hammond’s Win32 extensions can be found at http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/. Buy the book.

You can get a taste of what it was like in the 60s working on IBM mainframes by visiting Dave Nichols’ Place at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5705/360.html. I’m thinking about getting one of his Tshirts—the one that says “I helped create the Y2K bug.”