1.. _tkinter: 2 3********************************* 4Graphical User Interfaces with Tk 5********************************* 6 7.. index:: 8 single: GUI 9 single: Graphical User Interface 10 single: Tkinter 11 single: Tk 12 13Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust and 14platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers 15using the :mod:`tkinter` package, and its extension, the :mod:`tkinter.tix` and 16the :mod:`tkinter.ttk` modules. 17 18The :mod:`tkinter` package is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To 19use :mod:`tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to 20consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation. 21:mod:`tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python 22classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe 23mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact. 24 25:mod:`tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes 26bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good 27material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and 28others. :mod:`tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel, 29which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other 30GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about 31alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section. 32 33.. toctree:: 34 35 tkinter.rst 36 tkinter.ttk.rst 37 tkinter.tix.rst 38 tkinter.scrolledtext.rst 39 idle.rst 40 othergui.rst 41 42.. Other sections I have in mind are 43 Tkinter internals 44 Freezing Tkinter applications 45 46 47