Tkinter
Python binding to the Tk GUI toolkit
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Key Takeaways
- Tkinter is a binding to the Tk GUI toolkit for Python.
- Tkinter is included with standard Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS installs of Python.
- Tkinter was written by Steen Lumholt and Guido van Rossum, then later revised by Fredrik Lundh.
- Description As with most other modern Tk bindings, Tkinter is implemented as a Python wrapper around a complete Tcl interpreter embedded in the Python interpreter.
- There are several popular GUI library alternatives available, such as Kivy, Pygame, Pyglet, PyGObject, PyQt, PySide, and wxPython.
Tkinter is a binding to the Tk GUI toolkit for Python. It is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit, and is Python's de facto standard GUI. Tkinter is included with standard Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS installs of Python.
The name Tkinter comes from Tk interface. Tkinter was written by Steen Lumholt and Guido van Rossum, then later revised by Fredrik Lundh.
Tkinter is free software released under a Python license.
Description
As with most other modern Tk bindings, Tkinter is implemented as a Python wrapper around a complete Tcl interpreter embedded in the Python interpreter. Tkinter calls are translated into Tcl commands, which are fed to this embedded interpreter, thus making it possible to mix Python and Tcl in a single application.
There are several popular GUI library alternatives available, such as Kivy, Pygame, Pyglet, PyGObject, PyQt, PySide, and wxPython.
Definitions
Window
This term has different meanings in different contexts, but in general it refers to a rectangular area somewhere on the user's display screen.
Top-level window
A window which acts as a child of the primary window. It will be decorated with the standard frame and controls for the desktop manager. It can be moved around the desktop and can usually be resized.
Widget
The generic term for any of the building blocks that make up an application in a graphical user interface.
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