Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package. It is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/[http://wiki.tcl.tk/tk Tk].

Tkinter is not the only GuiProgramming toolkit for Python. It is however the most commonly used one, and almost the only one that is portable between Unix, Mac and Windows. CameronLaird calls the yearly decision to keep TkInter "one of the minor traditions of the Python world."

More info here: http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/

A new Tkinter wiki: http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/ (link doesn't work: Date(2004-05-07T16:42:53Z))

Tkinter Documentation

• [http://www.pythonware.com/library/index.htm An Introduction To Tkinter] (online) by FredrikLundh

• [wiki:1884777813 Python and Tkinter Programming] by John Grayson (see also GuiBooks)

• [http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/TkinterSummary.html Tkinter Summary]

• [http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROTKFolklore.html Tkinter Folklore]

David McNab recommended the latter two as particularly "pythonic" in not insisting that readers think in Tcl.

Also see: http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/doc.html

Tkinter Extensions

• ["Pmw"] (http://pmw.sourceforge.net)

• ["Tix"] (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-Tix.html)

• ["Tkinter3000"] (http://tkinter.effbot.org)

• ["How Tkinter can exploit Tcl/Tk extensions"]

Comments

MythDebunking: TkInter is ugly on Windows (http://wiki.tcl.tk/TkWidgetsLookFine)