What is a tkinter?
It’s a clever and lightweight Python library that allows you to create a graphical interface. Tkinter is included with standard Python installations in Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems. We eagerly reach for it when we need to write a micro-app for the client that usually automates a specific process. The customer is to be able to enter data, for example trigger an action from a button.
Examples of recent applications:
- An application that allows you to generate serial documentation. The client has various types of forms that are to be supplemented with data from CSV files. The application’s task is to generate hundreds of documents on the fly. I would call it mail merge on steroids 🙂
- Application for merging multiple PDF documents, adding barcodes in the footer, numbering and most importantly, lossless compression.
- Parsing data from the land and mortgage register system, downloading data contained in a specific land register entry and generating ready and completed notarial acts.
- Downloading data from the internal system B2b. The application logs in and, according to the instructions indicated by the user, downloads the data and saves the results.
If you are looking for applications that automate repetitive activities and want a light and simple interface at the same time – tkiner Python is for you.
