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| Other Graphical User Interface Packages |
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| Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are |
| available for Python: |
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| `PyGObject <https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject>`_ |
| provides introspection bindings for C libraries using |
| `GObject <http://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/>`_. One of |
| these libraries is the `GTK+ 3 <http://www.gtk.org/>`_ widget set. |
| GTK+ comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides. An online |
| `Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial <http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ |
| is available. |
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| `PyGTK <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ provides bindings for an older version |
| of the library, GTK+ 2. It provides an object oriented interface that |
| is slightly higher level than the C one. There are also bindings to |
| `GNOME <http://www.gnome.org>`_. One well known PyGTK application is |
| `WingIDE <http://wingide.com/>`_. An online `tutorial |
| <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available. |
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| `PyQt <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_ |
| 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 |
| <http://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/>`_ by Boudewijn |
| Rempt. The *PyQt4* bindings also have a book, `Rapid GUI Programming |
| with Python and Qt <http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html>`_, by Mark |
| Summerfield. |
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| `PySide <http://www.pyside.org/>`_ |
| is a newer binding to the Qt toolkit, provided by Nokia. |
| Compared to PyQt, its licensing scheme is friendlier to non-open source |
| applications. |
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| `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`_ |
| wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around |
| the popular `wxWidgets <http://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 |
| <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621>`_, by Noel Rappin and |
| Robin Dunn. |
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| 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 |
| <http://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. |
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