PyGTK is a set of bindings for the GTK widget set. It provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than the C one. It automatically does all the type casting and reference counting that you would have to do normally with the C API.

For more information on PyGTK, see its home page at www.pygtk.org.

At GUADEC 2002 in Seville I gave a talk about the state of the Python bindings for GTK and GNOME. At this point, I was recommending people move off the old GTK 1.2 bindings, so this talk covered the process of porting existing applications.

At GUADEC 2001 in Copenhagen, I gave a talk about the work I’d been doing on PyGTK. In particular, it talked about the major rewrite to build on top of ExtensionClass (a precursor of Python 2’s new style classes), and the start of GTK 2.0 support.

At GUADEC 2000 in Paris, I gave talks about the Dia diagram editor, and my Python bindings for GTK and GNOME.