[Doc] How does one to about getting onto the "Other Graphical User Interface Packages" page?

[PySimpleGUI]

BPO	44903
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @ambv, @zware, @JulienPalard, @miss-islington, @PySimpleGUI, @quantumgc
PRs	bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks #27762 [3.9] bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762) #27790 [3.10] bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762) #27791

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title = '[Doc] How does one to about getting onto the "Other Graphical User Interface Packages" page?'
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[PySimpleGUI]

Some time ago I noticed that the Python documentation has a list of GUI packages that are not part of the Python standard library.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/othergui.html

The title of the page I'm talking about says:
Other Graphical User Interface Packages

Major cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Unix-like) GUI toolkits are available for Python:

What are the criteria for being listed? PySimpleGUI has more monthly installs than Kivy & WxPython. They're not due to being bundled with a Linux distribution.

There is another page with a longer list:
https://docs.python.org/3/faq/gui.html

[zware]

Frankly, we should probably just remove that page, or replace it with a generic "Many other GUI toolkits can be found on PyPI" message.

[terryjreedy]

The direct answer is that you open an issue like you did, make an argument, as you did, and then submit a pull request. But we certainly do not need two redundant lists.

The Othergui page has a link to
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
which is not gated and where PySimpleGUI *is* listed.

I think that coredev should get out of the business of maintaining curated GUI lists. I agree that the restricted Othergui page should be deleted (and any reference thereto removed) and think that the list on the faq should be replaced by a reference to the Wiki and to PyPI. Zach, can you prepare a PR?

[zware]

I don't have the bandwidth to do so at the moment, but am willing to review one :)

[PySimpleGUI]

Thank you Terry! I'm glad I got it right.

I've been trying to keep the wiki page updated that you mentioned as best I can:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

I agree with the overall conclusion that the wiki is the place these lists should live.

[quantumgc]

I've submitted a PR making the changes suggested by Terry. Any
feedback/suggestions on the PR would be highly appreciated.

--

Gautam Chaudhuri

[ambv]

New changeset 6a358bb by Gautam Chaudhuri in branch 'main':
bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762)
6a358bb

[miss-islington]

New changeset f6bd1ca by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10':
bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762)
f6bd1ca

[ambv]

New changeset e21b66b by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9':
bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762) (GH-27790)
e21b66b

[ambv]

Thanks all! ✨ 🍰 ✨

CPython docs are now out of the business of curating lists of GUI frameworks.