Quick and easy with PySimpleGUI
Simple Is Good
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Use the same code for your Python GUI and web apps.
The PySimpleGUI project has two main goals: a simpler method for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and common code for Tkinter, QT, Wx, and web graphics. Although I feel comfortable doing my own Python Tkinter and web interfaces, having common code for both local GUI and web apps could be extremely useful, especially for Raspberry Pi projects. In this article, I introduce PySimpleGUI and create both a local GUI and a web interface to control a Raspberry Pi rover, all in less than 60 lines of code.
Getting Started
The Python PySimpleGUI [1] project has a number of "ports" or versions. The main full-featured version is for Tkinter-based graphics. The versions for Qt, Wx, and web graphics are still in development, so some testing will be required if you are hoping for full code compatibility between the different libraries.
Although you probably won't encounter a lot of cases in which you would want to flip between Qt, Wx, and Tkinter graphic engines, the possibility exists. Figure 1 shows examples of the same code applied to the different graphic libraries.
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