.. _tkinter:

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Graphical User Interfaces with Tk
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.. index::
   single: GUI
   single: Graphical User Interface
   single: Tkinter
   single: Tk

Tk/Tcl has long been an integral part of Python.  It provides a robust and
platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers
using the :mod:`Tkinter` module, and its extension, the :mod:`Tix` module.

The :mod:`Tkinter` module is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk. To
use :mod:`Tkinter`, you don't need to write Tcl code, but you will need to
consult the Tk documentation, and occasionally the Tcl documentation.
:mod:`Tkinter` is a set of wrappers that implement the Tk widgets as Python
classes.  In addition, the internal module :mod:`_tkinter` provides a threadsafe
mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.

Tk is not the only GUI for Python; see section :ref:`other-gui-packages` for
more information on other GUI toolkits for Python.

.. toctree::
   
   tkinter.rst
   tix.rst
   scrolledtext.rst
   turtle.rst
   idle.rst
   othergui.rst

.. % Other sections I have in mind are
.. % Tkinter internals
.. % Freezing Tkinter applications