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| Graphical User Interfaces with Tk |
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| .. index:: |
| single: GUI |
| single: Graphical User Interface |
| single: Tkinter |
| single: Tk |
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| Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust and |
| platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers |
| using the :mod:`Tkinter` module, and its extension, the :mod:`Tix` module. |
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| The :mod:`Tkinter` module is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To |
| use :mod:`Tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to |
| consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation. |
| :mod:`Tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python |
| classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe |
| mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact. |
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| :mod:`Tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes |
| bundled with Python. Although it has been used to create some very good |
| applications, including IDLE, it has weak documentation and an outdated look and |
| feel. For more modern, better documented, and much more extensive GUI |
| libraries, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section. |
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| .. toctree:: |
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| tkinter.rst |
| tix.rst |
| scrolledtext.rst |
| turtle.rst |
| idle.rst |
| othergui.rst |
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| .. Other sections I have in mind are |
| Tkinter internals |
| Freezing Tkinter applications |
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