The next problem I needed to solve was to come up with a simple graphical user interface (GUI) template as a front-end for configuring and launching any Python code or module I may wish to write or run. Initial impetus: I didn’t want to have to write a user interface from scratch every time I wrote some Python code to manipulate text, data or files. Bonus reason: if I made the GUI template generic enough, others might be able to use it to create their own user interfaces.
This would solve a problem that occurs in many technical fields. A university professor may have a post-doc researcher on her team, one who has written a complex command line program performing, e.g. image processing, AI or genetic analysis. At some stage, there may be some highly repetitive tests that can be performed by someone less technical, freeing up the researcher. She wouldn’t want him running these repetitive command-line tests with code only he knows how to run or, worse, sitting around designing complex user interfaces for others to use it. It would be better to get an intern or research assistant (or even a temp) to run the tests using a GUI that the researcher can knock up in a day or two. This would free him up to concentrate on his research. And finish it faster. Continue reading “GUI Template For Python: Part 1”
The first problem I wanted to solve was to write a short program that would allow me to perform basic textual analysis of any work of literature.