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Note: This section is rather incomplete. Don't be too disappointed if you can't find the information you need, but please add any information you can contribute.

Todo: Would it be useful to have information about the GUIs and development tools in a fixed format to make them more easily comparable (see WebProgrammingTemplate and WebProgrammingTemplateHelp). Some categories: directly supported widgets, addon widgets, layout managers, ...

Maybe it could answer the questions in ChoosingGuiToolkits for each toolkit?

Some available GUI toolkits for Python:

  • Package

    Target

    Notes

    Platform-specific ("native")

    BeThon

    BeOS

    MacPython

    MacOS

    Supports both OSX and OS9

    [http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ PyObjC]

    MacOSX

    Supports Cocoa Aqua GUIs on the Mac

    Win32All

    Windows

    Also known by the names of its components: PythonWin (for the UI), Win32Com (for COM/ActiveX), Win32 (for some other parts of the API)

    ["venster"]

    Windows

    [http://venster.sf.net Venster] is a highly native Windows GUI toolkit for Python based on the ctypes ffi library. The aim of Venster is to be a very lightweight wrapper around the standard Win32 API, making it easy to write slick windows applications in pure Python.

    Portable

    [:lwickjr/Modules/: GWiz]

    ["Tix"]

    GUI engine with integrated GUI builder. Need Alpha testers.

    ["Jython"]

    Java (swing)

    TkInter

    Tk

    Python's "standard" GUI library

    TkZinc

    Tk extension

    TkZinc is a extension of the Tk Canvas, with transparency, gradient, transformations

    WxPython

    WxWidgets

    supports Windows/Unix/Mac for now - visit http://www.wxwidgets.org

    ["Wax"]

    WxWidgets

    A wrapper to WxPython, easier and more "pythonic"

    PythonCard

    WxWidgets

    Both a framework and GUI builder. Can include wxPython code in PythonCard apps

    PyGtk

    Gtk

    Bindings for pango, atk, gtk and libglade

    GnomePython

    Gnome

    Gnome Platform bindings: bonobo, bonoboui, gconf, gnome, gnomecanvas, gnomevfs, gnomeui

    GnomePythonDesktop

    Gnome

    Gnome Desktop bindings: metacity, nautilus, gnomeprint, gtksourceview, gtop, media-profiles, totem, wnck

    GnomePythonExtras

    Gnome

    Additional Gnome bindings: libegg, gda, gtkmozembed, gtkspell, gksu, gdl, gtkhtml2

    PyQt

    Qt

    Python bindings for the [http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/ Qt] application development framework

    ["PyKDE"]

    Qt / KDE

    Python wrappers for the [http://www.kde.org/ KDE] libraries

    PyFltk

    FlTk

    supports Windows/Unix/Mac - visit http://pyfltk.sourceforge.net

    FxPy

    FOX

    PyPicoGUI

    [http://picogui.org/ PicoGUI]

    python library is included in the main PicoGUI release

    AnyGui

    many

    single source code runs on many GUI back-ends, including most others in this table, plus ncurses

    PyUi

    OpenGL

    Specialized GUI Toolkit for generating GUIs for OpenGL programs.

    ["PyGUI"]

    MacOS / Gtk

    Abstract, pythonic API encapsulating different platforms; At the moment runs on MacOS X/Carbon & Unix/Gtk

    EasyGui

    Tk

    EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in Python.

    PySWT

    SWT

    PySWT is a Python Binding to the IBM Eclipse SWT library, to provide Python with a cross platform native looking GUI, see http://www.cs.nyu.edu/zilin/pyswt/pmwiki.php?n=PySWT.Introduction

    VTK

    many

    The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. See http://public.kitware.com/VTK/index.php for more info.

    IronPython

    .NET/Mono

    Python for (originally MS') .NET platform. See http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython for more info.

    Nufox

    XUL (many)

    Nufox is a python, XUL toolkit written ontop of the Twisted Networking Framework and Nevow. The idea is that you should be able to write server-side cross platform XUL applications without writing XUL markup, with little javascript, all from the comfort of python, http://nufox.berlios.de/

Anyone for a GuiProgrammingShootout?

GUI builders:

CameronLaird's personal notes on Python GUIs [http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.python/python_GUI.html] includes over 25 links to toolkits and techniques for connecting python with a GUI.

Other places to look are PythonGuis at Thinki, and http://sensei.co.il/python/ui.html .

[http://www.opendocs.org/ Opendocs] has some material on Qt programming with python for on-line reading.

http://www.awaretek.com/toolkits.html - Choose Your GUI Toolkit: Find Your GUI Toolkit for Python based on your preferences. Quick cgi application which helps you make a choice. See also [http://awaretek.com/plf.html Python City].

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