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16. Graphical User Interfaces with 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 `Tkinter` module, and its extension, the `Tix` module.

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

Tk is not the only GUI for Python, but is however the most commonly used one; see section <tex2html_cross_ref_visible_mark>, ``Other User Interface Modules and Packages,'' for more information on other GUI toolkits for Python.

`Tkinter` |  | Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces
`Tix` |  | Tk Extension Widgets for Tkinter
`ScrolledText` |  | Text widget with a vertical scroll bar.
`turtle` |  | An environment for turtle graphics.