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Python has a huge number of GUI frameworks (or toolkits) available for it, from TkInter (traditionally bundled with Python, using Tk) to a number of other cross-platform solutions, as well as bindings to platform-specific (also known as 'native') technologies.
Cross-Browser Frameworks
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Package | Target | Latest version | Latest update date | Notes |
All major Web Browsers | 0.12 | 2020-08-28 | For versatile GUIs written in HTML/CSS and Python (no JavaScript needed) - The lightweight and easy-to-use toolkit to begin with GUI programming. | |
All major Web Browsers | 0.8 | 2012-06-01 | Comprehensive Widget toolkit, Python-to-Javascript compiler and AJAX library. Provides the 'V' in MVC. Note PyjamasDesktop was merged into pyjamas. |
Cross-Platform Frameworks
The Python programming language works on many platforms including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, many Linux distributions other systems. This article consists of two parts: GUI module - how to create a desktop interface with Python; Python to Executable - turn a Python program into an executable; The hardest part is learn Python, how to use a GUI module. Convert command line tools to Graphical Applications; Make GUI Apps (notepad, tic-tac-toe and more) Requirements. You should already have a basic understanding of Python; Understand Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Description. Master tkinter concepts and fundamentals with Python. Build graphical apps with Python.
The major cross-platform technologies upon which Python frameworks are based include Gtk, Qt, Tk and wxWidgets, although many other technologies provide actively maintained Python bindings.
Package | Target | Latest version | Latest update | Notes |
Windows, MacOS, Linux | 0.94 | 2019-05-26 | Simple & intuitive wrapper for Tkinter. In active development, designed for educational purposes, heavily documented & feature rich! | |
Linux / many | 0.11.0 | 2016-02-16 | Fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables. | |
Windows, MacOS, Linux | 66.0 | 2018-08-20 | Python bindings for the CEF Framework. https://clothesyellow662.weebly.com/blog/what-app-can-play-avi-on-mac. CEF is based on Google Chromium and focuses on facilitating embedded browser use cases in third-party applications. With CEF you can create a light-weight native “shell” application that hosts a user interface developed primarily using Web technologies. Examples of embedding CEF browser control are available for many popular GUI toolkits such as PyQt, PySide, wxPython, PyGTK, PyGObject, Kivy and PyGame/PyOpenGL. | |
0.9.16 | 2016-08-16 | Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit | ||
Windows, MacOS, Linux | 0.5.66 | 2020-11-09 | Dear PyGui A GPU Accelerated Python GUI Framework. At its' core it is a Python implementation of Dear ImGui. Docs are located on the Github Pages. | |
Qt | 2015-11-15 | A tiny Python module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters with having to write any GUI code | ||
WxPython (WxWidgets) | 0.9.3 | 2013-08-26 | Both a framework and visual tools: GUI Designer, Inspector and Property Editor. Supports Python 2.5 to Python 3.2; wxPython 2.8 'stable', 2.9 'classic' and 'phoenix' (py3k). Features advanced pythonic MVC controls (ListView, GridView, TreeView) using list- and dict-like objects; masked and date picker controls; common dialogs; fluid layout using sizers & basic HTML; simplified event model (similar to JavaScript). Can include wxPython code in apps. Modern PythonCard 'fork' hugely enhanced. | |
Qt | 1.7.6 | 2016-10-09 | Based on the Qt Python binding module PyQt4, guidata is a Python library generating graphical user interfaces for easy dataset editing and display. It also provides helpers and application development tools for PyQt4. | |
Qt | 0.3.5 | 2020-07-10 | A Qt wrapper that makes it extremely easy to create simple graphical interfaces | |
wxPython | 1.0.3 | 2019-09-22 | Converts most argparse based CLI programs into wxPythonGUI programs with a single import and decorator. | |
Windows, MacOS, Linux (Tkinter based) | 1.1.0 | 2019-10-24 | The aim of guizero is to make the process of creating simple GUIs quick, accessible and understandable for children. It is a Python 3 library based on Tkinter, for creating simple GUIs. | |
.NET/Mono | 2.7.4 | 2013-09-07 | Mac connect to apple tv app. Python for (originally MS') .NET platform. See IronPython for more info. | |
Java | 2.7.1 | 2017-06-30 | Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. See Jython | |
Windows, MacOSX, Linux, Android, iOS | 1.11.0 | 2019-06-01 | OpenGL ES accelerated framework for creating new user interfaces. Kivy have a native multitouch support for every platform, mouse simulator, widgets multitouch ready, integrated virtual keyboard, rst renderer.. | |
Windows, MacOS, Linux | 1.8.2 | 2014-07-16 | Not strictly a GUI toolkit, but a high-level multimedia framework that allows construction of media-rich guis. | |
1.3.1 | 2012-02-19 | supports Windows/Unix/Mac and provides access to OpenGL features. Stands for Fast, Light Toolkit.(Python 2 & 3) | ||
Qt & OpenGL | 2016-12-20 | A Python framework to develop GUI application, which promotes modular software design and code reusability with minimal effort. | ||
1.9.6 | 2019-04-25 | Primarily an introduction to game programming. Only supports one window.(Python 2 & 3) | ||
Windows, MacOS, Linux | 1.4.8 | 2019-11-21 | Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library that heavily uses OpenGL. | |
Gtk? | 3.34.0 | 2019-09-12 | PyGObject (aka PyGI). Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+. Replacement for PyGtk. See PyGobject | |
Gtk | 2.24.0 | 2011-04-01 | See PyGtk. Bindings for pango, atk, gtk and libglade. Good documentation from the Gtk Project. Wrapper uses some C programming style Note: New users are encouraged to use GTK+3 through the PyGObject bindings instead of using PyGTK with GTK+2. Windows users may still want to keep using PyGTK until more convenient installers are published. | |
GObject Introspection | 0.1.1 | 2011-03-29 | Pure Python GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) wrapper using ctypes. Supported CPython >= 2.6, CPython 3.x, PyPy >= 1.4.0, and on all platforms where gobject introspection is supported. | |
Cocoa / Gtk / Win32 | 2.5.3 | 2011-07-16 | Abstract, pythonic API encapsulating different platforms. | |
Qt | 5.15.1 | 2020-09-12 | Python bindings for the Qt application development framework (Python 2 & 3) | |
Sciter | 4.3.0.6 | 2016-02-16 | Python bindings for the Sciter - embeddable HTML/CSS UI engine. Windows, MacOS, Linux and mobiles. | |
Qt | 5.15.0 | 2020-06-15 | The Qt for Python (PySide) project provides licensed Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. | |
tkinter, Qt, wxPython,Browser, Win, Mac, Linux, Pi, PyDroid3, Trinket | 4.20.0 | 2020--06-06 | Wraps tkinter, Qt (pyside2), wxPython and Remi (for browser support) in a non-OOP API. Build custom GUI layouts in a few minutes in a few lines of code. Easy enough for beginners, powerful enough for advanced users. Extensive documentation. 100+ Built-in color themes. Runs online using Trinket. 200 example programs. | |
Cocoa / Win32 / Qt / GTK | 0.8.2 | 2015-10-08 | Pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own dedicated window. | |
OLPC XO with Linux | 0.98.5 | 2013-03-08 | User interface for collaborative educational software | |
OSX, GTK+, iOS | 0.2.4 | 2016-10-13 | Cross platform, Python native GUI toolkit that uses native system widgets. Under development as part of the BeeWare project. (Latest releases) | |
Tk | Included in Python standard library | Python's 'standard' GUI library (Documentation) | ||
Qt or Wx on Windows, MacOS, Linux | 6.0.0 | 2018-04-03 | The Traits/TraitsUI package offers the ability to build scalable and cross-platforms GUIs simply by focusing on the model being viewed, and offering default widgets for various types of objects. It abstracts away the implementation, which can currently use PyQt, Pyside or WxPython. In the simplest case, it can automatically generate a user interface for editing a (Traits-based) object, with no additional coding on the part of the programmer-user. In more sophisticated uses, it can implement a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern for Traits-based objects. | |
many | 6.1.0 | 2014-01-22 | The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. | |
4.0.4 | 2019-01-05 | Supports Windows/Unix/Mac. See wxPython. Supports Python 2.7 and >=3.4, pip installable. Wraps & extends the wxWidgets toolchain. Permissive Licence. |
Platform-specific Frameworks
Package | Target | Latest version | Latest update | Notes |
8.0.1 Photomyne app for mac. | 2020-07-28 | A plugin for Android Studio's Gradle-based build system. Supports embedding Python code within a regular Java/Kotlin app, or writing an app entirely in Python with full access to the Android API. | ||
MacOSX | 6.2.2 | 2020-07-08 | Supports Cocoa Aqua GUIs on the Mac | |
MorphOS | 0.7.0 | 2013-12-27 | LGPL MagicUserInterface wrapper for Python. Support for MorphOS 2.x.(Python 2.7) | |
Windows | 228 | 2020-06-13 | Previously called win32all. Also known by the names of its components: PythonWin (for the UI), Win32Com (for COM/ActiveX), Win32 (for some other parts of the API) |
GUI Design Tools and IDEs
IDE | Target | Latest version | Latest update date | Notes |
5.4.2 | 2014-03-09 | GPL. a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control.(Python 2 & 3 versions) | ||
0.9.6.1 | 2016-09-05 | Visual GUI Designer, Inspector and Property Editor (embeddable). PythonCard 'fork'. LGPL3. | ||
3.16.1 | 2013-12-18 | GPL. Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. | ||
12.0.1 | 2020-02-10 | Commercial | ||
MacOSX, Win, Linux | 3.0.38 | 2014-01-24 | App to creating 2D visuals using Python programming code. | |
TkInter, Tix | 4.2.1 | 2014-02-21 | GUI editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. | |
0.10.3 | 2020-10-03 | GPL TkInter GUI builder (exports XML '.ui' files) and RAD tool inspired by Glade. | ||
Windows | 2.5.1 | 2012-03-19 | MIT Open Source IDE developed using Python and Delphi. See PyScripter.(Python 2 & 3) | |
Windows/Linux/Mac | 13.01 | 2013-03-07 | An interactive environment for python, suitable for interactive GUI programming with different GUI toolkits (wxPython, TkInter, pyGTK, pyQT4 and PySide) | |
3.9.0 | 2018-10-26 | GPL cross-platform WYSIWYG GUI builder. Can produce XRC/XML, wxWidgets/C++, or wxPython/python. | ||
0.9.2 | 2019-03-07 | MIT License, wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. See WxGlade supports Python 2.7 & >=3.4 + wxPython >=2.8 or >=4.0 |
Links
- Learning to code is hugely popular at the moment, and Python is a great coding language to learn. Luckily for us, the Mac is a great coding platform, and Python makes it easy to learn how to code.
- In that post, Adam laid out the process to put together a basic python app that uses a native cocoa GUI created in Xcode. Given the updates to Xcode, and the fact that I’m using anaconda python, I figured I’d repost my process, with the modifications I made to get it to work in case it is useful for anyone else (and so I can remember how I.
Best Gui Interface For Python
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#Python - Wikipedia article describing several IDE's and GUI Builders.
Editorial Notes
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- A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
- Super-simple GUI to grasp.. Powerfully customizable.. based on tkinter, Qt, WxPython, Remi (for browser based)
- Little library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Python capabilities and libraries.
- A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
- Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its rendering.
- A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
- A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native dedicated window
- Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
- A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
- Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3)
- easygui for Python
- Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
- Python bindings for the Sciter - Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine (cross-platform desktop GUI toolkit).
- Easy add sharable web interfaces to your programs.
- A inspector to be able to view and edit Qt style sheet while an application is running
- A Desktop application for the signalum python library
- A tool for calculating distortion parameters in coordination complexes.
- A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
- Youtube-dl GUI Wrapper
Tkinter
Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.curses
Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.PyQt
Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.
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