New book on GUI programming with Python + Qt (PyQt4)

[Mark Summerfield]

A new book on Python GUI (graphical user interface) programming has just
been published in the US:

Title:    Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt
Subtitle: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming
Author:   Mark Summerfield (mark at qtrac.eu)
ISBN:     0132354187
Format:   Hardback, 648 pages
Homepage: http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html

Python is normally installed with the Tkinter GUI library, because
Tk/Tcl has a liberal license and is quite small as GUI libraries go. But
there are several other cross-platform GUI libraries available,
including PyGtk and PyQt, as well as various platform-specific
libraries.

The PyQt library is based on Trolltech's C++/Qt library that is the
foundation on which KDE (the K desktop environment) is built. PyQt has
far more widgets than Tkinter, produces much better looking applications
(because they look native on whatever platform they are running on), and
is easier to learn and use (because of its high-level signals and slots
communication mechanism). PyQt also offers many useful non-GUI classes,
including excellent support for threading.

The book covers PyQt4, and is best used with Python 2.5 and PyQt 4.2 or
better, on Windows, Mac OS X, or an X11-based Unix or Linux. No prior
knowledge of GUI programming is assumed, so don't worry if you've only
ever done web programming:-)

-- 
Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu

<P><A HREF="http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html">Rapid GUI Programming
with Python and Qt</A> - A new book on writing GUI applications with the
PyQt4 library.  (24-Oct-07)