The IDLE integrated development environment that comes with the normal Python installation is really a GUI program. It uses Tkinter as the GUI interface/library, also part of the normal installation. Tkinter uses tcl script language to do the work.
Here is a typical Python code example using Tkinter ...
# import all the Tkinter methods
from Tkinter import *
# create a window frame
frame1 = Tk()
# create a label
label1 = Label(frame1, text="Hello, world!")
# pack the label into the window frame
label1.pack()
frame1.mainloop() # run the event-loop/program
This code should run on Windows and Unix (PC or Mac). On a Windows machine save the program with a .pyw extension. This way it associates with pythonw.exe and avoids the ugly black DOS display popping up.
If you want to know more about Tkinter, you can run help("Tkinter") from IDLE. This will bring up all of Tkinter's documentations strings. You can also find much Tkinter detail at:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pub...ter/index.html
There is another GUI library worth mentioning, it's wxPython based on C++. The code is more efficient for GUI stuff. The download of the installer is free, look at
http://wiki.wxpython.org/
You can get wxPython for either Windows or Linux. There are some wxPython GUI examples in the DaniWeb Python Code Snippets. Here is a very nice wxPython tutorial I like to recommend, it will give you a good overview (examples work on Windows, Linux, or Unix):
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/AnotherTutorial
Note: GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. It's the usual Window matter like frames, buttons, labels, editboxes.
