Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Developing a UI

There are literally dozens of GUI options available for Python applications, even if the list is limited to those that are usable on more than one OS/platform—a list is maintained on the Python website at https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming. The more widely used are sufficiently feature-rich, and whole books could be written about each of them. Noteworthy GUI frameworks and toolkits include the following:

• Tkinter: Distributed as part of Python installations
• PyGObject: A GUI used for many Linux/Gnome applications, related to GnomePython and PyGTK (https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
• Kivy: This includes support for Android and iOS (iPhone) applications (https://kivy.org/)

Tkinter is the de facto standard for ...