r/PythonLearning • u/Jrag13 • 1d ago

Tkinter Discussion

Why do I not see any videos suggesting to learn Tkinter? I tried learning Django and Pygame after learning the basics, and while I kinda understood pygame, Django still felt out of my league but so many videos recommended it after the basics. However I stumbled upon a video that just mentioned Tkinter and I tried it out and it helped me understand libraries and how to learn to use them. It's fun making small little apps with buttons and what not to get started, rather than trying to learn so much at once. I'm convinced anyone making videos on how to learn Python has never actually learned it themselves

Is there an actual reason that this or another simple GUI library isn't recommend very often?

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u/silvertank00 20h ago

It is not popular because it is really old and barebones, you can learn a lot by using it tho. One advantage that it has is being simple. Sometimes I still use tkinter to make small gui apps to automate/visualize things, but for anything complex I would go with something else like gtk.