pady option, 418
positioning in windows, 370
PyCalc program as, 1475–1477
redirecting streams to, 623–628
resizing, 373–375, 396
standardizing appearance, 402
standardizing behavior, 402
state option, 418
tkinter widget classes, 411
top-level windows, 419–426
update tool, 583
update_idletasks tool, 583
wait_variable tool, 584
wait_visibility tool, 584
wait_window tool, 584
wildcard characters, 166
windows
automating building, 630–634
configuring titles, 375
hiding and redrawing, 587
independent, 476–477
menus and toolbars, 517–522
popping up on demand, 647–649
positioning widgets in, 370
PyEdit text editor, 678–681
PyMailGUI program support, 1060–1062
Windows environment
avoiding DOS consoles, 371
Component Object Model, 779
directory paths, 88
Distributed Component Object Model,
779
programming user interfaces, 358, 362
redirecting streams, 115
shell command limitations, 99
standard streams and, 114
tkinter support, 357
with statement, 140
wrapping
C environment calls, 1495–1501
C++ classes with SWIG, 1502–1511
descriptors in file objects, 158, 226
writing
CGI scripts, 1128–1130
custom language parsers, 1440–1457
files, 138
wxPython system, 359
X
X11 interface, 358
xdrlib module, 786
xml package
development options, 779
functionality, 1429
XML parsing
additional resources, 1435
DOM parsers, 1429, 1433
ElementTree support, 1429, 1434
functionality, 1430
overview, 779, 1429
regular expressions and, 1431
SAX parsers, 1429, 1431
third-party tools, 1435
XML-RPC
functionality, 779
integration considerations, 1540
persistence options, 1304
pickled objects and, 1311
xml.etree package, 1434
xmlrpc package, 1003, 1430Y
YAPPS parser generator, 1439Z
zips, summing with, 1411
ZODB system
functionality, 36, 1325–1326
pickled objects and, 1313
usage considerations, 1326–1329
zombie processes, 807–813
Zope toolkit, 778, 11691584 | Index