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 `PyGTK <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ 12 is a set of bindings for the `GTK <http://www.gtk.org/>`_ widget set. It 13 provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than 14 the C one. It comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides, and has 15 good Python-specific reference documentation. There are also bindings to 16 `GNOME <https://www.gnome.org/>`_. An online `tutorial 17 <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available. 18 19 `PyQt <https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro>`_ 20 PyQt is a :program:`sip`\ -wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit. Qt is an 21 extensive C++ GUI application development framework that is 22 available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. :program:`sip` is a tool 23 for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and 24 is specifically designed for Python. The *PyQt3* bindings have a 25 book, `GUI Programming with Python: QT Edition 26 <https://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/>`_ by Boudewijn 27 Rempt. The *PyQt4* bindings also have a book, `Rapid GUI Programming 28 with Python and Qt <https://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html>`_, by Mark 29 Summerfield. 30 31 `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`_ 32 wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around 33 the popular `wxWidgets <https://www.wxwidgets.org/>`_ (formerly wxWindows) 34 C++ toolkit. It provides a native look and feel for applications on 35 Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems by using each platform's native 36 widgets where ever possible, (GTK+ on Unix-like systems). In addition to 37 an extensive set of widgets, wxPython provides classes for online 38 documentation and context sensitive help, printing, HTML viewing, 39 low-level device context drawing, drag and drop, system clipboard access, 40 an XML-based resource format and more, including an ever growing library 41 of user-contributed modules. wxPython has a book, `wxPython in Action 42 <https://www.manning.com/books/wxpython-in-action>`_, by Noel Rappin and 43 Robin Dunn. 44 45 PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more 46 widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for 47 Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming 48 <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a 49 much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the 50 different GUI toolkits are compared. 51 52
