psidialogs (Python Simple Dialogs) is a common API for different standard dialogs like message, ask_string,..

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/psidialogs
• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/psidialogs

Features:

• unicode support
• cross-platform, development on linux

back-ends:

• PyGTK
• Zenity
• easygui
• gMessage
• PyQt
• TkInter
• wxPython
• PythonDialog
• console
• EasyDialogs

Known problems:

• Python 3 is not supported
• tested only on Linux and Windows

Some dialogs are too simple, because a common basic implementation is used where implementation is missing.

>>> from psidialogs import message >>> message('Hello!')

• install pip

• install the program:

  # as root
  pip install psidialogs

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install psidialogs

:

# as root
pip uninstall psidialogs

• anygui: multiple back-ends
• easygui: tk back-end
• PyZenity: Zenity back-end
• vsgui: Zenity back-end
• dlg: dialog/Xdialog/gdialog back-end
• python-dialog: dialog/Xdialog/gdialog back-end
• easydialogs-gtk: EasyDialogs API, PyGTK back-end
• EasyDialogs: EasyDialogs API, Mac back-end
• EasyDialogs for Windows: EasyDialogs API, Windows back-end