1 .. _tkinter: 2 3 ********************************* 4 Graphical User Interfaces with Tk 5 ********************************* 6 7 .. index:: 8 single: GUI 9 single: Graphical User Interface 10 single: Tkinter 11 single: Tk 12 13 Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust and 14 platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers 15 using the :mod:`tkinter` package, and its extension, the :mod:`tkinter.tix` and 16 the :mod:`tkinter.ttk` modules. 17 18 The :mod:`tkinter` package is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To 19 use :mod:`tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to 20 consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation. 21 :mod:`tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python 22 classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe 23 mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact. 24 25 :mod:`tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes 26 bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good 27 material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and 28 others. :mod:`tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel, 29 which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other 30 GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about 31 alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section. 32 33 .. toctree:: 34 35 tkinter.rst 36 tkinter.ttk.rst 37 tkinter.tix.rst 38 tkinter.scrolledtext.rst 39 idle.rst 40 othergui.rst 41 42 .. Other sections I have in mind are 43 Tkinter internals 44 Freezing Tkinter applications 45 46 47
