title: Introduction to Python Programming and Developing GUI Applications with PyQT
author:  B. M. Harwani 
description: B. M. Harwani is the founder and owner of Microchip Computer Education (MCE), based in Ajmer, India, which provides computer education in all programming and web-development platforms. He has more than 20 years' experience teaching programming concepts and has written many books on topics related to programming and development, including JSP, JSF, EJB, PHP, .NET, Joomla, jQuery, WordPress, and smartphones. To learn more, visit his blog, http://bmharwani.com/blog.
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  About the Tutorial 
  PyGTK is a set of wrappers written in Python and C for GTK + GUI library.  It is part of the 
  GNOME project. It offers comprehensive tools for building desktop applications in Python. 
  This tutorial discusses the basic functionalities of the different widgets found in the toolkit. 
   
  Audience 
  This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basic concepts 
  of PyGTK. Advanced programmers can also draw benefits from this tutorial. 
    
  Prerequisites 
  Before proceeding further with this tutorial, it is recommended that you have a reasonable 
  knowledge of Python programming language. 
    
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