WxPython

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The correct title of this article is wxPython. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

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

1 License
2 History
3 Example
4 See Also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] License

Being a wrapper, the license is the same as wxWidgets, which uses the wxWindows license[1]> (approved by the Open Source Initiative. Another license was submitted under the 'wxWidgets' name and is currently pending approval.

[edit] 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[2].

[edit] Example

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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()