
Other Graphical User Interface Packages
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Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are
available for Python:

See also:

   PyGObject
      provides introspection bindings for C libraries using GObject.
      One of these libraries is the GTK+ 3 widget set. GTK+ comes with
      many more widgets than Tkinter provides.  An online Python GTK+
      3 Tutorial is available.

      PyGTK 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.  One well known PyGTK application is PythonCAD. An
      online tutorial is available.

   PyQt
      PyQt is a **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. **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 by Boudewijn
      Rempt. The *PyQt4* bindings also have a book, Rapid GUI
      Programming with Python and Qt, by Mark Summerfield.

   PySide
      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
      wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is
      built around the popular wxWidgets (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, 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 page in the Python Wiki for a much more complete list, and
also for links to documents where the different GUI toolkits are
compared.
