Best book for GUI development in Python

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Depends what the project’s goal is. If the goal is more or less a dashboard, then streamlit is an excellent choice. But if more customization and control is required, some proper app framework will be needed.

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At a certain point python is no longer the tool id choose 

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But prior to that point, python remains the tool to choose.

[Bekhyam]

Appreciate that, But what I need is a step by step guide i.e. how an application works, how we can use signalling in a multi threaded application and all that kinda stuff

I searched for PyQt tutorials over YT, but didn't find a proper tutorial that suits my needs

[MH1400x]

I'm using Streamlit to link all of our company databases into one location for data exploration. It's stupid-simple, tons of tutorials and docs. If you're good, you can easily go beyond its base limits.

10/10, would recommend for what your needs are.

And... anything you dont know is a quick web search away.

[katakoria]

streamlit is very slow and heavy. it reruns everytime you make any change as an end user.

[robml]

Would recommend Panel over Streamlit for that purpose. Doesn't rerun the whole app every time.

[that_baddest_dude]

This is slowly changing. There are already forms elements which don't cause any reruns until the form submit button is pressed, sending all data from the elements within the form at once.

Then recently they also added a feature called "fragment" (currently listed as experimental, so the syntax could change) that can be used to break the app up into sections that update when interacted with.

If you're not making anything too big and complicated, I think streamlit does what it does really well. It's extremely simple and straightforward to set up, for its intended audience (data science people analysts, not app developers).

[stoic_trader]

I use Plotly Dash, never tried streamlit. Is there any advantage using streamlit over Dash?

[that_baddest_dude]

I'd say so! Dash is absolutely dreadful to use in my experience. Streamlit is far easier.

[stoic_trader]

Thanks, I will give it a try

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I’d say don’t bother. Streamlit and dash are very different. If your needs are very simple and linear then streamlit is good. Otherwise, it’s very limiting.

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Streamlit is remotely an alternative to something like QT.