1 .. _other-gui-packages: 2 3 Other Graphical User Interface Packages 4 ======================================= 5 6 Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are 7 available for Python: 8 9 .. seealso:: 10 11 `PyGObject <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject>`_ 12 PyGObject provides introspection bindings for C libraries using 13 `GObject <https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/>`_. One of 14 these libraries is the `GTK+ 3 <https://www.gtk.org/>`_ widget set. 15 GTK+ comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides. An online 16 `Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial <https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/>`_ 17 is available. 18 19 `PyGTK <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ 20 PyGTK provides bindings for an older version 21 of the library, GTK+ 2. It provides an object oriented interface that 22 is slightly higher level than the C one. There are also bindings to 23 `GNOME <https://www.gnome.org/>`_. An online `tutorial 24 <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available. 25 26 `PyQt <https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro>`_ 27 PyQt is a :program:`sip`\ -wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit. Qt is an 28 extensive C++ GUI application development framework that is 29 available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. :program:`sip` is a tool 30 for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and 31 is specifically designed for Python. 32 33 `PySide <https://wiki.qt.io/PySide>`_ 34 PySide is a newer binding to the Qt toolkit, provided by Nokia. 35 Compared to PyQt, its licensing scheme is friendlier to non-open source 36 applications. 37 38 `wxPython <https://www.wxpython.org>`_ 39 wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around 40 the popular `wxWidgets <https://www.wxwidgets.org/>`_ (formerly wxWindows) 41 C++ toolkit. It provides a native look and feel for applications on 42 Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems by using each platform's native 43 widgets where ever possible, (GTK+ on Unix-like systems). In addition to 44 an extensive set of widgets, wxPython provides classes for online 45 documentation and context sensitive help, printing, HTML viewing, 46 low-level device context drawing, drag and drop, system clipboard access, 47 an XML-based resource format and more, including an ever growing library 48 of user-contributed modules. 49 50 PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more 51 widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for 52 Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming 53 <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a 54 much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the 55 different GUI toolkits are compared. 56 57
