Prerequisite:
Python offers multiple options for developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface). Out of all the GUI methods, Tkinter is the most commonly used method. Python with Tkinter outputs the fastest and easiest way to create GUI applications.
Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from “wikipedia.org”. Here, we are using summary function of this module to get the summary of the argument(as a string) given to the program.
Installation
To install the Wikipedia library, just type this in terminal :
pip install wikipedia
Approach
- Import module
- Create a normal window
- Add buttons
- Create mechanism to scrap summary from wikipedia
- Display summary
- Execute code
Program:
Python3
from tkinter import Tk, Frame, Toplevel, Entry, Button, Text, Scrollbar, END, INSERT from tkinter.messagebox import showerror from wikipedia import summary # create function which will show summary def get_summary(): # if summary will be fetch from internet try: # clear text area answer.delete(1.0, END) # show summary in text area answer.insert(INSERT, summary(keyword_entry.get())) # if any it will give error, it will be shown in a new error window except Exception as error: # Title of new error window is "Error" and message will be # string given in variable error showerror("Error", error) # create a GUI window root = Tk() # set title of window root.title("Wikipedia Summary") # set geometry of geometry root.geometry("770x650") # set window's width and height to # false => window will not be resizable root.resizable(False, False) # set background colour of window root.configure(bg="dark grey") # create a frame for entry and button top_frame = Frame(root, bg="dark grey") top_frame.pack(side="top", fill="x", padx=50, pady=10) # create a frame for text area where summary will be displayed bottom_frame = Frame(root, bg="dark grey") bottom_frame.pack(side="top", fill="x", padx=10, pady=10) # create a entry box where user can enter a keyword keyword_entry = Entry(top_frame, font=("Arial", 20, "bold"), width=25, bd=4) keyword_entry.pack(side="left", ipady=6) # create a search button search_button = Button(top_frame, text="SEARCH", font=( "Arial", 18, "bold"), width=15, bd=4, command=get_summary) search_button.pack(side="right") # create a scroll bar for text area scroll = Scrollbar(bottom_frame) # create a text area where summary will be displayed answer = Text(bottom_frame, font=("Arial", 18), fg="red", width=55, height=20, bd=5, yscrollcommand=scroll.set) answer.pack(side="left", fill="y") scroll.pack(side="left", fill="y") # start the GUI root.mainloop() |
Output :
