Burkhard A. Meier - Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook

Burkhard A. Meier has more than 15 years of professional experience working in the software industry as a software tester and developer, specializing in software test automation development, execution, and analysis. He has a very strong background in SQL relational database administration, the development of stored procedures, and debugging code.

While experienced in Visual Studio .NET C#, Visual Test, TestComplete, and other testing languages (such as C/C++), the main focus of the author over the past two years has been developing test automation written in Python 3 to test the leading edge of FLIR ONE infrared cameras for iPhone and Android smart phones as well as handheld tablets.

Being highly appreciative of art, beauty, and programming, the author developed GUIs in C# and Python to streamline everyday test automation tasks, enabling these automated tests to run unattended for weeks, collecting very useful data to be analyzed and automatically plotted into graphs and e-mailed to upper management upon completion of nightly automated test runs.

His previous jobs include working as a senior test automation engineer and designer for InfoGenesis (now Agilysys), QAD, InTouch Health, and presently, FLIR Systems.

You can get in touch with him through his LinkedIn account, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/burkhard-meier/5/246/296.

I would like to thank all truly great artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Poe, and so many more for bringing the presence of beauty into our human lives. This book is about creating very beautiful GUIs written in the Python programming language, and it was inspired by these truly great artists.

I would like to thank all of the great people that made this book possible. Without any of you, this book would only exist in my mind. I would like to especially thank all of my editors at Packt Publishing: Vivek, Arwa, Sumeet, Pramod, Nikhil and so many more. I would also like to thank all of the reviewers of the code of this book. Without them this book would be harder to read and apply to real-world problems. Last but not least, I like to thank my wife, our daughter, and our parents for the emotional support they provided so successfully during the writing of this book. I also like to give thanks to the creator of this very beautiful and powerful programming language that Python truly is. Thank you Guido.

Joy Bindroo holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering. He is currently pursuing his post-graduate studies in the field of information management. He is a creative person and enjoys working on Linux platform and other open source technologies. He enjoys writing about Python and sharing his ideas and skills on his website, http://www.joybindroo.com/. He likes to sketch, write poems, listen to music, and have fun with his friends in his free time.

I would like to thank my family, teachers, and friends for always encouraging and supporting me. I'm most thankful to Lord Shiva who enables me to achieve greater heights.

Peter Bouda works as a senior web developer for MAJ Digital and is a specialist in full stack JavaScript applications based on LoopBack and AngularJS. He develops Python GUIs for companies and research projects since 2003 and wrote a German book, PyQt und PySide GUI- und Anwendungsentwicklung mit Python und Qt , on Python GUI development, which was published in 2012. Currently, he is getting crazy with embedded and open hardware platforms and is working on a modular game console based on open hardware.

Joseph Rex is a full stack developer with a background in computer security. He has worked on Python GUI products and some CLI programs to experiment with information security. He came out of security to web development and developed a passion for rails and JavaScript MVC frameworks after working on several projects using jQuery. He has been in the web industry for 3 years, building web applications and mobile apps. He has also written articles on security for InfoSec Institute and has written some scripts to back them up. He has to his credit several personal experimental projects written in Python.

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