20. Graphical User Interfaces with Tk
Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust
and platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to
Python programmers using the Tkinter module, and its
extension, the Tix module.
The Tkinter module is a thin object-oriented layer on top of
Tcl/Tk. To use Tkinter, you don't need to write Tcl code,
but you will need to consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally
the Tcl documentation. Tkinter is a set of wrappers that
implement the Tk widgets as Python classes. In addition, the internal
module _tkinter provides a threadsafe mechanism which allows
Python and Tcl to interact.
Tk is not the only GUI for Python; see
section 20.6, ``Other User Interface Modules and
Packages,'' for more information on other GUI toolkits for Python.
| Tkinter |
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Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces |
| Tix |
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Tk Extension Widgets for Tkinter |
| ScrolledText |
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Text widget with a vertical scroll bar. |
| turtle |
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An environment for turtle graphics. |
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