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PySimpleGUI - Introduction
PySimpleGUI - Introduction
Python GUIs for Humans
The PySimpleGui project started as a wrapper around TKinter package, which is bundled with Python’s standard pbrary, with the objective to simppfy the GUI building process.
PySimpleGui subsequently added the abipty to design desktop GUIs based on PySide pbrary (which itself ports Qt GUI toolkit, originally written in C++, to Python) and WxPython (which ports another popular GUI toolkit called WxWidgets). These pbraries are called PySimpleGUIQt and PySimpleGUIWx respectively.
The latest addition to the PySimpleGui family is the PySimpleGUIWeb package which uses the Remi (REMote Interface Library) to construct GUI design that is rendered in a web page.
All the packages in the PySimpleGui group follow the similar API, which means the names of GUI elements, their properties and methods are same in all the four packages. As a result, just by replacing the import statement (and keeping the rest of the code unchanged), one can get the corresponding GUI design rendered. This is in fact the most important feature of PySimpleGui. That’s why, it is known as Python GUIs for Humans.
Comparison with other GUI Frameworks
A Python programmer has a variety of GUI frameworks to choose from, to develop a GUI apppcation. TKinter is the one which is officially included in Python’s standard pbrary. Others, most of them are open source, have to be exppcitly installed.
| Sr.No. | Library & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | TkInter Included in Python standard pbrary |
| 2 | PyQt Python 3 bindings for the Qt apppcation framework. |
| 3 | PySide Qt for Python (formerly known as PySide) offers the official Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform apppcation and UI framework. |
| 4 | PySimpleGUI Wraps tkinter, Qt (pyside2), wxPython and Remi (for browser support) in a non-OOP API |
| 5 | wxPython Supports Windows/Unix/Mac. Supports Python 2.7 and >=3.4. Wraps & extends the wxWidgets toolchain. |
| 6 | PyGObject PyGObject is a Python package which provides bindings for GObject based pbraries such as GTK Replacement for PyGtk. |
| 7 | PyForms A Python framework to develop GUI apppcation, which promotes modular software design and code reusabipty with minimal effort. |