Introduction

This tutorial covers GUI programming in python with tkinter. Tkinter is a python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit.

There are other GUI toolkits like wxPython, JPython, PyQt and PyGTK.

For developing GUI applications in python using Tkinter, you need to import Tkinter module. After that you can create windows and fill it with controls provided by Tkinter. These controls are called widgets.

In next chapter we'll see how to create a basic windows using Tkinter.