| .. _other-gui-packages: | |
| Other Graphical User Interface Packages | |
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| Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are | |
| available for Python: | |
| .. seealso:: | |
| `PyGTK <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ | |
| is a set of bindings for the `GTK <http://www.gtk.org/>`_ widget set. It | |
| provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than | |
| the C one. It comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides, and has | |
| good Python-specific reference documentation. There are also bindings to | |
| `GNOME <https://www.gnome.org/>`_. An online `tutorial | |
| <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available. | |
| `PyQt <https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro>`_ | |
| PyQt is a :program:`sip`\ -wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit. Qt is an | |
| extensive C++ GUI application development framework that is | |
| available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. :program:`sip` is a tool | |
| for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and | |
| is specifically designed for Python. The *PyQt3* bindings have a | |
| book, `GUI Programming with Python: QT Edition | |
| <https://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/>`_ by Boudewijn | |
| Rempt. The *PyQt4* bindings also have a book, `Rapid GUI Programming | |
| with Python and Qt <https://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html>`_, by Mark | |
| Summerfield. | |
| `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`_ | |
| wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around | |
| the popular `wxWidgets <https://www.wxwidgets.org/>`_ (formerly wxWindows) | |
| C++ toolkit. It provides a native look and feel for applications on | |
| Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems by using each platform's native | |
| widgets where ever possible, (GTK+ on Unix-like systems). In addition to | |
| an extensive set of widgets, wxPython provides classes for online | |
| documentation and context sensitive help, printing, HTML viewing, | |
| low-level device context drawing, drag and drop, system clipboard access, | |
| an XML-based resource format and more, including an ever growing library | |
| of user-contributed modules. wxPython has a book, `wxPython in Action | |
| <https://www.manning.com/books/wxpython-in-action>`_, by Noel Rappin and | |
| Robin Dunn. | |
| PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more | |
| widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for | |
| Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming | |
| <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a | |
| much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the | |
| different GUI toolkits are compared. | |