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.. _other-gui-packages: Other Graphical User Interface Packages ======================================= Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are available for Python: .. seealso:: `PyGTK <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ is a set of bindings for the `GTK <http://www.gtk.org/>`_ 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 <http://www.gnome.org>`_. One well known PyGTK application is `PythonCAD <http://www.pythoncad.org/>`_. An online `tutorial <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>`_ is available. `PyQt <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_ PyQt is a :program:`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. :program:`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 <http://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/>`_ by Boudewijn Rempt. The *PyQt4* bindings also have a book, `Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt <http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html>`_, by Mark Summerfield. `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`_ wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around the popular `wxWidgets <http://www.wxwidgets.org/>`_ (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 <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621>`_, 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 <http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the different GUI toolkits are compared.