Fresh tutorial on tkinter and ttk for Python 3

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Oleh Prypin picture Oleh Prypin · Jul 28, 2011 · Viewed 89.1k times · Source

Where can I find the most modern tutorial that teaches tkinter together with ttk?

Tkinter seems the only way to go in Python 3 (don't suggest Python 2), and ttk gave me hope for good-looking GUI.

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Todd picture Todd · Jul 29, 2011

I have found the TkDocs tutorial to be very useful. It describes building Tk interfaces using Python and Tkinter and ttk and makes notes about differences between Python 2 and 3. It also has examples in Perl, Ruby and Tcl, since the goal is to teach Tk itself, not the bindings for a particular language.

I haven't gone through the whole thing from start to finish, rather have only used a number of topics as examples for things I was stuck on, but it is very instructional and comfortably written. Today reading the intro and first few sections makes me think I will start working through the rest of it.

Finally, it's current and the site has a very nice look. He also has a bunch of other pages which are worth checking out (Widgets, Resources, Blog). This guy's doing a lot to not only teach Tk, but also to improve people's understanding that it's not the ugly beast that it once was.

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