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Python GUI Toolkits</h3>
<p>Choosing a toolkit for your <i>graphical user interface
(GUI)</I> projects is not a simple thing. You need to research and
compare what the features are that each option has to offer. When you decide to
stick to one toolkit, you'd better be prepared to use it for some time. Toolkit
implementations are so different that it becomes hard to change your code and
your way of thinking from one toolkit to another whenever it comes time to move
to a different implementation. Most of all, if you always jump from one OS to
another, make sure that your GUI of choice is cross-platform, even though it is
known how hard it is to implement a cross platform GUI these days (not just in
Python). On the other hand, if you know that you will stay in a certain
platform, such as Windows or Linux, for some time be sure that梔epending
on what platform you choose梩here are a lot of options for you. Of
course, by choosing a cross platform toolkit, you leave your options open
(which is a good thing because you might change your mind in a few years).
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<p>Although you might decide to choose something different, the Python
community has already chosen the standard choice for GUI development with
Python梚t is called Tkinter, and it's part of the standard Python
distribution. For more information, see
<a href="206.html">Chapter 15, "Tkinter."
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<p>Besides Tkinter, many other GUI solutions are supported by Python.
This chapter exposes many of them.</p>
<p>STDWIN, which used to be the first word in GUI for Python, is now
just an unsupported and obsolete platform-independent, low-level windowing
interface.</p>
<p>Support for the wxWindows portable GUI class library is also
available through the wxPython interface, which runs on multiple systems, such
as GTK, Motif, MS Windows, and Mac. wxPython is a Python extension module that
is quickly becoming acclaimed among Python developers by wrapping many of the
wxWindows C++ classes.</p>
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<A name="idx1073748175"></A>Pythonwin is a Python GUI for Windows that includes an
interface to the Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming
environment that uses this interface. By the way, this programming environment
is also written in Python.</P>
<P>Other not-so-famous GUI options are also available:</P>
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<P>An object-oriented, cross-platform GUI based on the Microsoft
Foundation Classes model called Wpy.</P>
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<p>Interfaces to WAFE, FOX, Motif, PLTK, and so forth.</p>
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<p>Bindings to Gnome, KDE, OPENGL, QT, and so on.</p>
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<p>For Mac systems, you can use its large set of modules that
support the native Mac toolbox calls. Check out the documentation that comes
with the Mac Python port for more information.</p>
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<p>As well as many others, as shown in this chapter.</p>
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<p>As you can see, the number of options is large. The conclusion is
that you need to think about today's reality and tomorrow's possibilities. Even
though we know that Tkinter is doing a great job today, and it seems that it
will for a long time, you should open your mind to other possibilities as well.
Be sure that other nice tools out there exist. Tk is slower than most other
toolkits (the one reason people find it acceptable is that it double buffers
its widgets).</p>
<P>At this time, a couple of other bindings are becoming quite
capable, such as the bindings for Gnome/GTK, QT, and KDE. These bindings fit
nicer into their respective desktop environments.</p>
<p>The question that I left for you is, "What toolkit will be
part of the next generation of standard GUIs for Python?" I see many
alternatives: What about you? Most people will stick to Tkinter. That is for
sure. And that's also the reason why the next chapter covers this fantastic
toolkit implementation.
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graphical user interfaces (GUIs)<BR>
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interfaces<BR>
graphical user (GUI)<BR>
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modules<BR>
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toolkits<BR>
<a href="#idx1073748170">graphical user interfaces (GUIs)</a> <a href="#idx1073748178">2nd</a><BR>
<a href="#idx1073748173">Pythonwin</a><BR>
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