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.. _other-gui-packages:
Other Graphical User Interface Packages
=======================================
Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are
available for Python:
.. seealso::
`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.
`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>`_. An online `tutorial
<http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available.
`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.
`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.
`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.
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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