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4 Graphical User Interfaces with Tk
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7 .. index::
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8 single: GUI
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9 single: Graphical User Interface
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13 Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python. It provides a robust and
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14 platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers
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15 using the :mod:`Tkinter` module, and its extensions, the :mod:`Tix` and
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16 the :mod:`ttk` modules.
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18 The :mod:`Tkinter` module is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To
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19 use :mod:`Tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to
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20 consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation.
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21 :mod:`Tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python
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22 classes. In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe
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23 mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.
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25 :mod:`Tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes
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26 bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good
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27 material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and
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28 others. :mod:`Tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel,
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29 which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other
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30 GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about
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31 alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
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33 .. toctree::
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