24.7. 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:

  PyGTK
     is a set of bindings for the GTK widget set. It provides an
     object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than the
     C one. It comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides, and
     has good Python-specific reference documentation. 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. 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.

  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.
