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<span id="other-gui-packages"></span><h1>24.7. Other Graphical User Interface Packages<a class="headerlink" href="#other-graphical-user-interface-packages" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>Major cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.pygtk.org/">PyGTK</a></dt>
<dd>is a set of bindings for the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK</a> 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
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</a>. An online <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html">tutorial</a> is available.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro">PyQt</a></dt>
<dd>PyQt is a <strong class="program">sip</strong>-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. <strong class="program">sip</strong> is a tool
for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and
is specifically designed for Python. The <em>PyQt3</em> bindings have a
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Rempt. The <em>PyQt4</em> bindings also have a book, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html">Rapid GUI Programming
with Python and Qt</a>, by Mark
Summerfield.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.wxpython.org">wxPython</a></dt>
<dd>wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around
the popular <a class="reference external" href="https://www.wxwidgets.org/">wxWidgets</a> (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, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.manning.com/books/wxpython-in-action">wxPython in Action</a>, by Noel Rappin and
Robin Dunn.</dd>
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<p>PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
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Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming">GUI Programming</a> page in the Python Wiki for a
much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the
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