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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
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
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.
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.

PySide
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.

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.