24.6. Other Graphical User Interface Packages
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.
