Table of Contents

PYTHON FOR DESKTOP APPLICATIONS ....................................................... 2

Copyright .................................................................................................. 3

About the Author ....................................................................................... 4

Table of Contents ....................................................................................... 5

Preface ......................................................................................................... 8

What this book covers ................................................................................ 8

What you need for this book ........................................................................ 9

Who this book is for ................................................................................... 9

How to use this book ................................................................................. 10

Conventions ............................................................................................. 10

Reader feedback ........................................................................................ 12

Downloading example code........................................................................ 12

Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................ 15

1.1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 15

PIP ........................................................................................................ 17

Wheels .................................................................................................. 17

Virtual Environment .............................................................................. 18

GIL ...................................................................................................... 20

CLI and GUI ........................................................................................... 21

Anaconda and Miniconda........................................................................ 22

1.2. Environment Setup .............................................................................24

Python and choosing the right version .....................................................24

32-bit or 64-bit? ...................................................................................... 25

Editor.................................................................................................... 25
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Git ........................................................................................................26

First Python application..........................................................................26

Second Python application ...................................................................... 29

Working with Virtual Environment ......................................................... 31

1.3. References ..........................................................................................35

Chapter 2: Create a File Downloader with Tkinter .......................................... 36

2.1. Create a basic GUI application with Tkinter ...........................................37

2.2. Create a Python downloader application............................................... 44

Create a console file downloader with progress ........................................ 44

Create a GUI file downloader .................................................................. 50

Exercises .............................................................................................. 63

2.3. Create executable (.exe) for GUI Downloader App .................................. 64

What about other packager?................................................................... 64

Install dependencies ...............................................................................65

Pack the GUI Downloader .......................................................................65

UPX or NOUPX ...................................................................................... 68

2.4. Create installer for GUI Downloader App............................................... 71

Working with NSI file ............................................................................. 72

Run the setup ........................................................................................ 80

2.5. References ..........................................................................................87

Chapter 3: Create a Music Player with Kivy .................................................... 88

3.1. Preparing the environment ................................................................. 90

3.2. Simple GUI with Kivy .......................................................................... 91

3.3. Working with .kv file ..........................................................................95

3.4. Create a music player application with Kivy......................................... 100

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Kivy Logger .......................................................................................... 111

3.5. Create an executable for Python Music Player .......................................113

3.6. References ......................................................................................... 119

Chapter 4: Debugging ................................................................................. 120

4.1. Remove -w option............................................................................... 121

4.2. Use file logger ................................................................................... 123

4.3. Remember data files .......................................................................... 123

4.4. UPX and vcruntime140.dll ................................................................. 124

4.5. Use DependencyWalker (Windows only) ............................................. 124

4.6. Use another packager ........................................................................ 129

Using cx_Freeze.................................................................................... 129

4.7. References ........................................................................................ 134

Appendix 1: List of figures ........................................................................... 135

Appendix 2: List of examples ....................................................................... 138