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wxPython is a Cross-platform wrapper for the GUI API (often referred to as a ' Toolkit ') WxWidgets (which is written in C++ ) for the Python Programming Language . It is one of the alternatives to Tkinter , which is bundled with Python. It is implemented as a Python Extension Module ( Native Code ). Other popular alternatives are PyGTK and PyQT . LICENSE Being a wrapper, the license is the same as wxWidgets, which uses the wxWindows license {Link without Title} (approved by the Open Source Initiative ). Another license was submitted under the 'wxWidgets' name and is currently pending approval. HISTORY wxPython was born when Robin Dunn needed a GUI to be deployed on HP-UX systems and also on Windows 3.1 in a few weeks time. While evaluating commercial solutions, he ran across Python bindings for the wxWidgets toolkit. Thus, he learned Python and, in a short time, became one of the main Developers of wxPython (which grew from those initial bindings), together with Harri Pasanen . The first versions of the wrapper were created by hand. However, soon the code base became very difficult to maintain and keep in sync with wxWidgets releases . However, later versions were created with SWIG , greatly decreasing the amount of work to update the wrapper. The first "modern" version was announced in 1998 {Link without Title} . EXAMPLE
import wx class TestFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, parent, ID, title): wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title, pos=(0, 0), size=(320, 240)) panel = wx.Panel(self, -1) text = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, "Test", wx.Point(10, 5), wx.Size(-1, -1)) class TestApp(wx.App): def OnInit(self): frame = TestFrame(None, -1, "Hello, world!") self.SetTopWindow(frame) frame.Show(True) return True if __name__ == '__main__': app = TestApp(0) app.MainLoop() SEE ALSO
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