learning python

In this tutorial we are going to extend our PyWine application to allowing you to edit the items that you have added to the list and save an load the wine lists you create so that you don’t have to keep entering them in all the time.

Topics covered in this tutorial:

Glade
PyGTK
gtk.FileChooserDialog
gtk.FileFilter
gtk.TextView
gtk.TextBuffer
gtk.TextMark
gtk.MessageDialog

You can download the full source for this tutorial here.
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#! /usr/bin/env python
from Tkinter import *

class App(Frame):

def __init__(self, master):

"""Initialise the base class"""
[...]

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Prerequisites
In order to follow along with this tutorial you will need Python 2.4 and PyGame 1.7.0+ installed. Since I’m doing this all on a Mac and Python 2.4.2 is not available from MacPython or any other site as a disk image I decided to install from source.
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