Other Graphical User Interface Packages

Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits areavailable for Python:

See also

PyGObject

PyGObject provides introspection bindings for C libraries usingGObject. One ofthese libraries is theGTK+ 3 widget set.GTK+ comes with many more widgets than Tkinter provides. An onlinePython GTK+ 3 Tutorialis available.

PyGTK

PyGTK provides bindings for an older versionof the library, GTK+ 2. It provides an object oriented interface thatis slightly higher level than the C one. There are also bindings toGNOME. An onlinetutorial is available.

PyQt

PyQt is asip-wrapped binding to the Qt toolkit. Qt is anextensive C++ GUI application development framework that isavailable for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.sip is a toolfor generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, andis specifically designed for Python.

PySide2

Also known as the Qt for Python project, PySide2 is a newer binding to theQt toolkit. It is provided by The Qt Company and aims to provide acomplete port of PySide to Qt 5. Compared to PyQt, its licensing scheme isfriendlier to non-open source applications.

wxPython

wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built aroundthe popularwxWidgets (formerly wxWindows)C++ toolkit. It provides a native look and feel for applications onWindows, Mac OS X, and Unix systems by using each platform’s nativewidgets where ever possible, (GTK+ on Unix-like systems). In addition toan extensive set of widgets, wxPython provides classes for onlinedocumentation 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 libraryof user-contributed modules.

PyGTK, PyQt, PySide2, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and morewidgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits forPython, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See theGUI Programming page in the Python Wiki for amuch more complete list, and also for links to documents where thedifferent GUI toolkits are compared.