[FAQ] "Best" GUI toolkit for python

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Il 18/10/2016 09:42, Mark Summerfield ha scritto:
> PySide/PyQt
>
> On Windows I use Python 3.4 + PySide 1.2.4 (Qt 4.8). I have found this
> very reliable and use it for both my personal projects and for my
> commercial products. I don't use a GUI design tool but you could use Qt
> Designer to visually draw your GUI since PySide can read the .ui files it
> outputs.
>
> Eventually PySide 2 will be available, and that will support Qt 5
> (for what that's worth) and presumably Python 3.5+ (which I look
> forward to).

Why don't you use a GUI design tool?  Better... how can you design a GUI 
without seeing it?  For me it's very difficult to "code the GUI".


> Gtk/PyGObject/PyGI
>
> Windows is in no way a first class platform for this, so I wouldn't
> use it. (I wouldn't use it on any other platform either: I think the
> introspection idea is excellent and wish Qt had done it; but I
> personally really dislike the direction Gtk has gone in recent
> years.)

Could you explain those... "directions" that you don't like?


> Tkinter
>
> This is okay for many simple use cases. However, creating custom
> widgets in  Tkinter is non-trivial to say the least (especially compared with
> say,PySide or wxPython), and there is no support for _editable_ styled text.
> (If someone can prove me wrong I'd be glad to know how to edit text in
> Tkinter and toggle bold, italic, underline, super- and sub-script, font
> family, font size, and color. I can do most of these - but not all, and
> haven't seen any other code that can do them all either. Note that I'm
> not talking here about syntax highlighting but rather
> word-processor-style styling.)
>
> wxPython
>
> I've heard some people say they use Python 3 + Phoenix successfully.
> On the plus side it uses the native widgets so has a native look and feel.
> But what I find frustrating is that there are many widgets with
> overlapping functionality so it isn't clear which one is the best to use.
>
> For Windows specifically, you could use https://pythonnet.github.io/
> This gives you access to the CLR so you should be able to use a lot of
> stuff you're familiar with from VB; some of which might even work on Linux
> with the Mono runtime.
>
> A completely different cross-platform approach is to use a web browser as
> the GUI toolkit. For example:
> https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview + https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi
> or https://flexx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
>
> There are other toolkits too, e.g.,
> http://pybee.org/project/projects/libraries/toga/
> (but this has very little documentation)
>
> Or
>
> https://kivy.org/#home
>
> And there are more (e.g., libui, IUP, SDL2).
>
> Good luck!
>