https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/ 2026-06-10T19:54:09+00:00 https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/ https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/_media/wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2023-12-22T11:20:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:1.1?rev=1703244026&do=diff Python Professional Course Series: GUI Programming What is GUI? GUI is an acronym. Moreover, it’s a three-letter acronym, a representative of a well-known class of acronyms which plays a very important role in the IT industry. Okay, that’s enough jokes about TLA’s for one course, all the more that text/html 2023-12-28T20:16:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:2.4?rev=1703794616&do=diff 2.4 Shaping the main window and conversing with the user The main window is a very specific construct, as its fate is shared among two masters: you (supported by tkinter) and your operating system. This means than you cannot manage the window like any other widget, as the text/html 2023-12-19T10:02:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m2:4.1?rev=1702980148&do=diff 4.1 PEP 257 – Docstring Conventions What is PEP 257? PEP 257 is a document created as part of the Python Developer's Guide, which makes an attempt to standardize the high-level structure of docstrings. It outlines the conventions, best practices, and semantics (not laws or regulations!) associated with documenting Python code using docstrings. In short, it tries to answer the following two questions: text/html 2023-11-05T21:21:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m2:2.1?rev=1699219278&do=diff 2.1 PEP 20 – The Zen of Python The Zen of Python is a collection of 19 aphorisms, which reflect the philosophy behind Python, its guiding principles, and design. Tim Peters, a long time major contributor to the Python programming language and Python community, wrote this 19-line poem on the Python mailing list in 1999, and it became entry #20 in the Python Enhancement Proposals in 2004. text/html 2024-03-04T12:38:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m5:5.1?rev=1709555915&do=diff 5.1 The configparser module Introduction to the configparser module Currently, many popular services provide an API that we can use in our applications. Integration with these services requires authentication using data such as a login and password, or simply an access token. text/html 2024-01-19T10:37:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m4:1.6?rev=1705660623&do=diff 1.6 Making life easier with the requests module We have reached the point where we can start the final stage of our journey – we know enough to communicate with the web service using JSON as an information carrier. Unfortunately, our knowledge needs to be supplemented – we need a text/html 2023-12-22T11:49:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:1.2?rev=1703245770&do=diff 1.2 Let TkInter speak! Importing TkInter As you already know, from Python's point of view TkInter is a package named tkinter. The package contains a bunch of functions, constants, classes, objects, and modules used to build GUI applications. The GUI text/html 2023-12-28T19:51:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:2.3?rev=1703793078&do=diff 2.3 A small lexicon of widgets - Part 3 There are two remaining widgets we want to tell you about – the first one is just a widget, while the second is, in fact, a set of cooperating widgets. The Entry widget not only presents a line of text, but is also able to text/html 2024-03-05T08:09:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m4:1.2?rev=1709626190&do=diff 1.2 How to use sockets in Python How to fetch a document from a server using Python We are going to write our first program making use of network sockets. Of course, we'll harness Python for this purpose. Here are our goals: * we want to write text/html 2023-12-13T22:19:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m2:3.1?rev=1702505981&do=diff 3.1 PEP 8 – Introduction As mentioned earlier, PEP 8 is a document that provides coding conventions (code style guide) for Python code. PEP 8 is considered one of the most important PEPs and a must-read for every professional Python programmer, as it helps to make the code more consistent, more readable, and more efficient. text/html 2024-01-19T11:22:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m4:1.7?rev=1705663347&do=diff 1.7 Four magic letters: CRUD Entering a non-existing/malformed address We’ve reached the point in which we are ready to gather all new facts and tools and glue all these pieces into one functional block. You already know how HTTP works, how it’ is mounted on top of the TCP stack and how the text/html 2023-11-05T20:34:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m1:2.9?rev=1699216453&do=diff 2.9 Inheriting properties from built-in classes Python gives you the ability to create a class that inherits properties from any Python built-in class in order to get a new class that can enrich the parent's attributes or methods. As a result, your newly-created class has the advantage of all of the well-known functionalities inherited from its parent or even parents and you can still access those attributes and methods. text/html 2023-12-28T11:29:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:1.6?rev=1703762970&do=diff 1.6 Events and how to handle them Event handling As you already know, events are the fuel which propel the application’s movements. All events come to the event manager, which is responsible for dispatching them to all the application components. This also means that some of the events may launch some of your callbacks, which makes you responsible for preparing the proper reactions to the user’s actions. text/html 2023-12-28T19:09:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:2.1?rev=1703790579&do=diff 2.1 A small lexicon of widgets - Part 1 A small lexicon of widgets Now we’re ready to present a systematized set of some of the tkinter widgets. We aren’t able to describe all of them, however – it would bloat our course to an unmanageable size. We’re convinced that our collection is large enough to make you familiar with text/html 2024-03-04T12:54:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m5:1.1?rev=1709556888&do=diff 1.1 SQLite What is a database? Nowadays, social applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are very popular. Every day many people create new accounts, and existing users add or share different content. You’ve surely noticed that the data sent to those applications are still available after a few days, or even years. Do you know how that’s possible? text/html 2023-11-05T20:33:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m1:2.4?rev=1699216387&do=diff 2.4 Decorators A decorator is one of the design patterns that describes the structure of related objects. Python is able to decorate functions, methods, and classes. The decorator's operation is based on wrapping the original function with a new « text/html 2023-11-05T20:34:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m1:2.8?rev=1699216442&do=diff 2.8 Composition vs Inheritance - two ways to the same destination So far we've been using and following the inheritance concept when modeling our classes to represent real-life issues. Inheritance is a great concept, one of the most important foundations of object-oriented programming that models a tight relation between two classes: the base class and the derived class, called a subclass. text/html 2023-11-05T20:34:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m1:4.2?rev=1699216496&do=diff 4.2 Serialization of Python objects using the pickle module In this section, you will learn how to persist Python objects for later use. Pickling is the process of preserving or extending the lifespan of food. The resulting food is called a pickle, and to prevent ambiguity, prefaced with the 'pickled' adjective. text/html 2023-12-23T19:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:1.5?rev=1703359986&do=diff 1.5 A simple GUI application Building a GUI application from scratch Now we're going to build a very simple and rather useless GUI application. Does that sound weird? Maybe, but the application, when ready, will make you more accustomed to some tkinter text/html 2023-12-28T12:06:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m3:1.7?rev=1703765167&do=diff 1.7 Visiting widgets’ properties Widget properties As you already know, every widget has a set of properties, and the widget’s user is able to change them by modifying the widget’s appearance and behavior. We’ll show you how to manipulate properties and present a basic set of the most usable widget properties. text/html 2024-01-08T19:15:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m4:1.1?rev=1704741328&do=diff 1.1 Python Professional Course Series: RESTful APIs Some words about REST The word you see below may look a little enigmatic: REST Are we going to convince you to take a rest? Not at all. On the contrary, we want to encourage you to start the next part of our adventure - very demanding and completely new. We'll show you not Python itself, but a very specific kind of machinery (do not take this literally) which drives lots of contemporary computer systems, especially those which work on the In… text/html 2024-01-19T17:59:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://miguelangel.torresegea.es/wiki/info:cursos:pue:python-pcpp1:m4:2.1?rev=1705687171&do=diff 2.1 Python Professional Course Series: Lab & Assessment Working with RESTful APIs: Lab & Assessment Well done, you've reached the end of the course! In this section, it's time to translate your Python skills and everything you've learned about RESTful APIs into some real-world projects. Specifically, we'll ask you to create: