Acire Snippets is a library and browser of snippets and examples of Python code that demonstrates how to perform specific tasks. It has a new Acire Snippets website with information on how to use it and send contributions and PyGTK users are encouraged to enrich the existing PyGTK snippets collection.

The installers for win32 have been now updated to recent versions. As usual, they can be found here (under the pygtk, pygobject and pycairo directories). Thanks to John Stowers for fixing and doing the windows builds and to Ignacio Casal for uploading them.

PyGobject 2.21.1 has been released, this is an unstable release leading to 2.22.0. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGTK 2.17.0 is the first release in the 2.17.x series. It's unstable, so it should be used with caution. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGobject 2.21.0 has been released, this is an unstable release leading to 2.22.0. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGobject 2.20.0 has been released, this is a stable release, the first of the 2.20.x series. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGTK 2.16.0 is a new major release containing the API recently added in GTK-+2.16. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGobject 2.19.0 has been released, this is an unstable release leading to 2.20.0. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGTK 2.15.1 is the second release in the 2.15.x series. It's unstable, so it should be used with caution. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGobject 2.18.0 has been released, this is a stable release, the first of the 2.18.x series. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGTK 2.15.0 is the first release in the 2.15.x series. It's unstable, so it should be used with caution. Lot's of new apis were added. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGobject 2.17.0 has been released, this is an unstable release leading to 2.18.0. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

PyGTK 2.14.1 is a bug fix only release and it contains updated reference manual for the 2.14 API. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

Ali Afshar explains how to use your custom PyGTK widgets from within the Glade 3 User Interface designer. The topic is covered in two articles. First part, second part.

For the joy of the masses Alberto Ruiz has prepared an all-in-one installer to make the lifes of those wanting to install a PyGTK environment on windows much more pleasant. Check out the release announcement.

PyGTK 2.10.4 is a bug fix only release. As usual, it's sources can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement and full list of changes.

The PyGTK 2.10 installer for Win32 is now available thanks to the hard work of Cedric. The installers for PyGObjet,PyGTK and PyCairo are now mirrored on ftp.gnome.org.

Go and grab them from the download page.

PyGTK 2.10.0 includes the following new features:

• Includes John Finlays reference manual
• gobject bindings were removed, moved to a separate tarball
• Added GTK+ 2.10 API: Assistant, CellRendererSpin, LinkButton, Printing*, RecentChooser, StatusIcon
• Many code generator improvements
• New module gtk.unixprint
• Reduced memory usage
• MacOS X support
• Many bug fixes

Read the complete announcement here

PyGObject 2.12.0 includes the following new features:

• John Finlays reference manual is now included and prebuilt
• GOption is now supported
• Support for signal emission hooks
• Various GInterface related improvements
• Many bug fixes

Read the complete announcement here

Mark Mruss comes back again with an interesting article on how to easily write a star rating widget using PyGTK.

A new version (2.9.0) of the PyGTK Reference is available. This release adds documentation on: the high level printing classes and the gtk.unixprint and atk module classes. Other class additions include:

• gtk.Assistant
• gtk.CellRendererAccel
• gtk.CellRendererSpin
• gtk.LinkButton
• gtk.PageSetup
• gtk.PaperSize
• gtk.PrintContext
• gtk.PrintOperation
• gtk.PrintOperationPreview
• gtk.PrintSettings
• gtk.RecentChooserDialog
• gtk.RecentChooserMenu
• gtk.RecentChooserWidget
• gtk.RecentChooser
• gtk.RecentFilter
• gtk.RecentInfo
• gtk.RecentManager
• gtk.StatusIcon

Finally links to ancestor properties and signal prototypes have been added to the class descriptions.

This new article by Mark Mruss explains how to build a simple application using glade and PyGTK, and expands on the basics explained in the previous Creating a GUI using PyGTK and Glade article.

This article by Mark Mruss explains how to start using glade to build your PyGTK application interfaces. This is a perfect start for beginners who want to enjoy the power of glade.

After more than 3 months and 30 bugzilla reports, closed Gazpacho 0.6.6 has finally been released. This releases is the first one that takes advantages of kiwi features and it provides better defaults for common widgets, multiple selection support and it can now open up compressed files (gzip and bzip2).
Read the complete release announcement.

New features in this release are improved distribution support, a replacement for distutils.setup() which makes it easier to distribute graphical and internationalized python applications. Included are also improvements and bugfixes for ObjectList, KiwiEntry masks and threading fixes for the Kiwi UI Test.
Read the complete release announcement.

PyGTK 2.8.6 is a bug fix only release. An important leak was fixed by Michael Smith, so if you had issues with leaky enums and flags, then this release is for you. It can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

PyGTK 2.9.0 is the first release in the 2.9.x series. It's unstable, so it should be used with caution. Lot's of new apis were added, It can be fetched from: here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

PyGTK 2.8.5 contains only a small amount of bug fixes. The main feature is that it can be built against pygobject, so it's suitable for inclusing in GNOME 2.14. It can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

Continue to learn how to write pygtk widgets using the new Cairo API. This article is a translation of Davyd Madeley's Writing a Widget Using Cairo and GTK+2.8, Part 2 article using pygtk concepts and idioms. It has been cooked for you by Lawrence Oluyede and its firt part is reachable here.

GnomePythonDesktop provides python interfacing modules for some GNOME libraries part of the GNOME Desktop (gnomeapplet, gnomeprint, gnomeprint.ui, gtksourceview, wnck, totem.plparser, gtop, nautilusburn, mediaprofiles, metacity). GnomePythonExtras provides python interfacing modules for some GNOME libraries not part of the Developer or Desktop platforms (gtkhtml2, egg.trayicon, egg.recent, gtkspell, gtkmozembed, gdl, gda, gksu, gksu.ui).

This new article expands on previous articles on how to write pygtk widgets using the new avaliable Cairo API. The article has been written (in spanish) by Alberto Ruiz.

PyGTK 2.8.4 contains only a small amount of bug fixes. The main feature is that it can be built against pygobject, so it's suitable for inclusing in GNOME 2.14. It can be fetched here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

2.9.0 marks the first release of PyGObject, the python bindings for GObject. It has just been split off from PyGTK and is now a separate package. Fetch it here. Check out the release announcement.

Thanks to the hard work of David Trowbridge, documentation of the gnomevfs python module (from GnomePython) has started. It is not complete yet, however, any help is appreciated.

Learn how to write pygtk widgets using the new Cairo API. The article translates Davyd Madeley's Writing a Widget Using Cairo and GTK+2.8 into pygtk concepts and idioms. The article has been cooked by Lawrence Oluyede.

2.8.2 contains only a small bugfix related to GIOChannel, you can find it here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

Finally, the second stable version of PyGTK 2.8.x is out! here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

Learn how to write pygtk applications on win32 and create your own podcasting tool at the same time. You can start with this tutorial by Nzeka Gilbert here.

A new version (2.8.1) of the PyGTK Reference is available. This release adds documentation on: the pangocairo module and its CaiorContext and CairoFontMap classes; the gdk.PangoRenderer class; the pango.Renderer class; the pango.LayoutLine class. Other additions include: gdk.Drawable.cairo_create() method, gobject.child_watch_add() and gobject.spawn_async() functions, and gtk.binding_entry_remove() function. Some bug fixes were made thanks to Nikos Kouremenos.

A new version (2.8.0) of the PyGTK Reference is available. This release includes much of the new PyGTK 2.8 API and many bugfixes - thanks to Nikos Kouremenos, Gian Mario Tagliaretti, Steve Langer, Sridhar Ratna, Gustavo Rahal and brett for bug reports. And thanks to Gian Mario Tagliaretti for a patch.

Finally, the new stable version of PyGTK is ready for production usage! Fetch it from here: here. Check out the release announcement or, for a complete list of changes, read this page at the wiki.

This is yet another release which contains mostly bug fixes, Get it here. You can also read the the full release announcement.

This is another minor release which contains only bug fixes, Get it here. You can also read the the full release announcement.

This is a minor release which contains only bug fixes, Get it here. You can also read the the full release announcement.

This is a minor release which mostly bug fixes and small (final for 2.7) api additions. Fetch it from here: here.

The first 2.7.x release of PyGTK is now spreading itself through the world. Catch it while it's hot, at the usual places. This is release with lots of new major features. Cairo, GIOChannel, GSource are among the long list of new gadgets. Download it from here.

The slides of the "Rapid Application Development with PyGTK and libglade" talk are now online. The slides show how to use Sandino Flores' simple-glade-codegen for creating applications in no time. An example is included.

The documentation for some of the GnomePythonExtras modules is now online. Many thanks to Gian Mario Tagliaretti for writing these docs!

This is a development release for testing pleasure. GnomePython It adds some more methods in the gconf, gnomecanvas and gnomevfs modules. Download it from here. The full announcement with the complete list of changes can be found at the mailing list.

This is an unstable release for the joy of testing purpouses. GnomePyhtonExtras provides python interfacing modules for some GNOME libraries not in the Developer Platform, such as gtkhtml2, gnomeapplet, wnck... This release adds some fixes and improvements, and a whole bunch of new documentation contributed by Gian Mario Tagliaretti. Get the source here. The full announcement with the complete list of changes can be found at the mailing list.

Finally, after almost 2 whole months of waiting, the PyGTK team can produly present the latest stable version. As usually in the stable branch there is only bug fixes. Download it from here. The full announcement containing a list of changes can be found at the mailing list.

A new version (2.4) of the PyGTK Tutorial is available. The example programs have been updated to avoid most of the deprecation warnings

A new version (2.6.0) of the PyGTK Reference is available. This is mostly a bug fix release with thanks to John Ehresman, Nikos Kouremenos and Johan Dahlin for bug reports. And thanks to Gian Mario Tagliaretti for a patch.

The PyGTK team has done it again! This is PyGTK's new stable release. It will get you some improvements and improvements, as well as fixes. Download it from here. The full announcement containing a list of changes can be found at the mailing list.

This is pyGTK's new stable release. Please, use with joy! You'll get the coolest, most stable and most featurefull release ever to make your GTK+ apps smile!. Download it from here. Read the happy announcement and list of changes at the mailing list.

A new version (2.5.2) of the PyGTK Reference is available. Changes include documentation on the gtk.glade module thanks to Johan Dahlin and many bug fixes thanks to Rafael Villar Burke and Gian Mario Tagliaretti.

This will be the final release before 2.6.0 (unless some serious bugs shows up). Please test carefully! You'll be rewarded with the stablest PyGTK release ever! here. Read the whole party announcement at the mailing list.

Next week, next Gazpacho release. Many exciting new features in this 0.5.0 version. From here, it will probably only have bug fixes until 1.0. See the announce and get the files.

We're glade to announce another version of this interface designer. This time a lot of people contributed so you can expect fancy cool new features. Don't wait, see the announce and get the bytes!.

The streets are in rage, they're celebrating the release of PyGTK, you can join the party, by downloading it from: here. Read the whole party announcement at the mailing list.

An updated spanish translation of the PyGTK tutorial by John Finlay has been released. This is the PyGTK way of celebrating this Cervantes' year and also an intent to help everybody having fun while learning PyGTK. Enjoy it at the usual www.pygtk.org place!. Sale una nueva versión actualizada de la traducción del tutorial de PyGTK de John Finlay. De esta manera celebramos este año Cervantes e intentamos que todo el mundo se lo pase bien aprendiendo PyGTK. Disfruta del excelente tutorial en el lugar habitual www.pygtk.org!.

We have news about the last version of this Graphical User Interface Designer. Maybe not a lot of new features but tons of bug fixes and code cleanups, which are necessary for next major features. Check it out at Gazpacho page!

We are proud to announce the last unstable version of GnomePython which includes some fixes related to gnomevfs, gconf and gnome.ui. We would be very happy if you could download it, test it and give us some feedback about it. As always, thank you very much Gustavo!

We couldn't wait longer than 10 days of the new year before doing a release, We're proud to announce that 2.5.2 or PyGTK is now available from the usual places! Please note that this is an unstable release, so be careful. Bring em on! If you're brave enough: download it now! Read the whole announcement at the mailing list.

Happy to see you all safe on the other side.

From the PyGTK team straight to you, a happy new year. And remember, 2005 is going to be the year PyGTK takes over the world!

-- kiko, on behalf of the CAPS-LOVING OFFICIAL PYGTK TEAM

Gustavo's been busy while the rest of us are trying to digest fatty holidays meals. He's released updated versions of practically all gnome-python components:

• GnomePython 2.6.2
  (Fixes in gnome.vfs)
• GnomePython 2.9.2
  (gnome.vfs, bonobo and gconf improvements)
• GnomePythonExtras 2.9.2
  (egg.recent, gtkspell, pymozembed added)

Links are to the source tarball download directories. See the mailing list release announcements for more detailed infomrmation.

-- kiko

It's worth mentioning (though we have had a release in the news here before) that GnomePythonExtras is a new package in the PyGTK family, consisting of add-ons to GnomePython that aren't part of the official Gnome platform. It serves as a standard place to release bindings for additional gnome-related libraries in the hope that they receive attention from a larger userbase, with the side-intent of being folded into the main distribution. GnomePythonExtras is currently maintained by the expert Gustavo Carneiro of Portugal (though he probably wouldn't like to describe himself that way, I think I can get away with it).

-- kiko

A new version (2.3) of the PyGTK Tutorial is available. Changes include the addition of sections on ColorButtons, FontButtons, Actions, ActionGroups and the UIManager and many bug fixes due to: Rafael Villar Burke, Marc Verney, Joey Tsai, Steve George, kraai and Jens Knutson.

A new version (2.5.1) of the PyGTK Reference is available. Changes include updates to reflect changes in PyGTK 2.5.1 and many bug fixes (thanks to Rafael Villar Burke, Johan Dahlin, Erik Grinaker, Doug Quale, and Gian Mario Tagliaretti).

The PyGTK team is pleased to announce PyGTK 2.5.1. Please note that this is an unstable release, so be careful If you're brave enough: download it now! Read the whole announcement at the mailing list.

We are having a BOF at the Mataro Ubuntu Conference. We have a Wiki page where you can see who is going and what are we going to do. By the way, Mataro is close to Barcelona (Spain) and the pygtk bof is on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of December.

We have PyGTK 2.5.0, Gnome Python 2.9.1 and Gnome Python Extras 2.9.1. They are all unstable versions so the need your help to find bugs and fix them. More information is given in the regular mailing list but feel free to ask in our irc channel if you find any problem with this packages.

A new version (2.5.0) of the PyGTK Reference is available. Additions include the new GTK+ 2.5.5 AboutDialog, CellRendererCombo, CellRendererProgress, CellView, FileChooserButton, IconView, MenuToolButton widgets and many new functions and methods.

Sandino Flores (aka tigrux) has written an excellent tutorial about writting PyGTK applications with Glade and some libraries he wrote so now coding gnome python applications is easier than ever before. Check it out at http://primates.ximian.com/~sandino/python-glade/.

The PyGTK team is pleased to announce PyGTK 2.4.1. This is a bugfix release but also some new examples were added too. So, go download it and give new life to your phantasmagoricial applications right now!. Read the whole announcement at the mailing list.

The PyGtk team is very happy to announce the final version of PyGTK 2.4.0 and other important related packages like Gnome-Python 2.6.0 and PyOrbit 2.0.1. A lot of exciting functionality from GTK+ 2.4.0 is inside this new version so better applications can be developed with it. As always we are eager to listen your feedback!

After some nasty threading issues the PyGTK team is proud to announce PyGTK 2.3.97 which will be 2.4.0 if everything goes fine. How will we know that? By intensive testing!! So please, download it and test your fancy applications right now! Reports from applications with threads have a bonus added. Read the whole announce at the mailing list.

Sridhar R. contributed code to the PyGTK.org website that generates an RSS feed of the latest news items posted. This code has been integrated over the weekend and is currently live. Please send feedback and report problems to pygtk-web at pygtk dot org.

Johan Dahlin added devhelp index creation support to the PyGTK Reference. The manual and tarballs have been updated to include devhelp indexes. There were no other significant changes from the 2.4.9 version. The devhelp index alone for use with the 2.4.9 version is also available: get the gzip'd PyGTK Reference devhelp index.

John Finlay announced new releases of his PyGTK Tutorial and PyGTK Reference. Additions include ComboBox, ComboBoxEntry, EntryCompletion, Expander, Clipboard, FileChooser (by Alex Roitman) and several bug fixes!

The PyGTK team has released PyGTK 2.3.94 today. This is a small bug fix release and should be stable enough to use for developing new applications. The official announce is here and you can download it from here. We'd really appreciate testing and bug reports on this release.

The PyGTK team has released PyGTK 2.3.93 today. We are now in frozen state so no more changes are expected until 2.4.0, just bug fixes. The official announce is here and you can download it from here. We'd really appreciate testing and bug reports on this release.

David Reed's Linux Journal article is available online: Rapid Application Development with Python and Glade.

Elijah P. Newren submitted a new article, which describes Gnome development using four different languages: C, C++, Perl and Python.

The PyGTK team has released the latest (and perhaps last) version off the 0.6 branch, PyGTK 0.6.12. This version contains a number of small bugfixes and two API additions that were accumulated over the past two years in CVS. Download it from gtk.org while it's hot.. or not!

John Finlay announced new releases of his PyGTK Tutorial and PyGTK Reference. Additions include GenericTreeModel, sorting of TreeModel rows, editable and activatable TreeView cells, more TreeView examples, updated timeout, IO and idle sections, updated drag and drop section updated and several bug fixes! Thanks again John.

The PyGTK team has released PyGTK 2.3.92 which implement most of the new GTK+2.4 APIs. The official announce is here and you can download it from here. We'd really appreciate testing and bug reports on this release.

The PyGTK team has released PyGTK 2.3.91 which implement most of the new GTK+2.4 APIs. The official announce is here and you can download it from here. We'd really appreciate testing and bug reports on this release.

We are happy to announce version 2.0.2 of GNOME Python. We have quite a few of bug fixes and new functions wrapped so don't wait until your friends try it and do it by yourself. As always you can find the files at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/2.0/. After a previous 2.0.1 version on the 30th of March we released 2.0.2 just to fix a build problem with the vfs bindings.

After one week from the rc1 we finally have PyGTK 2.2.0. Go to the Downloads section and install this new version of your favourite Python graphical toolkit. As always testing and bug reports are very much appreciated!.

John (J5) Palmieri released a new version of PyGtkSpell, the Python bindings for the easy-to-use GtkSpell spell checker. GtkSpell works in conjunction with the GtkTextView widget to give programs spell checking capabilities with only a few lines of code. Download the PyGtkSpell source tarball.

The first release candidate for PyGTK 2.2.0 is out. Testing and bug reports are very much appreciated! Lorenzo has prepared a summary of changes, and you can also check out Bonsai's detailed checkin list.

GRAMPS is a pygtk/gnome-python based genealogy program. The GRAMPS team is looking for a person to step forward to claim the task of gnome-print integration into GRAMPS. This will use the GNOME print infrastructure to allow print preview and direct printing of reports.

Don Allingham, GRAMPS maintainer writes: ''We have a start on the code, but not enough resources to complete the task as quickly as we would like. With the donations we have received, we have been able to set the bounty for this task at $100. While it may not be a tremendous amount, it should buy a few books, quite a bit of pizza, or a new disk drive.''

For more information and the requirements, see the Gnome Print Bounty page on the GRAMPS wiki.

Updated 2004-03-11: Alex Roitman took up the challenge and has finished integration of gnome-python with GRAMPS.

Arturo González has written a great tutorial on building applets for the Gnome panel in our favourite language. Check it out in the Articles section. By the way, Arturo says ''comments and suggestions are more than welcome!''

We are happy to announce a new website for PyGTK. We already had extremely good resources like the docs, the mailing list and the FAQ but we needed a place to put all together. We hope that with this website people will find the information about PyGTK faster and better.

We are pleased to announce version 2.0 of the Python bindings for GTK. The new release is available from ftp.gtk.org or ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors:

• ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/v2.0/pygtk-2.0.0.tar.gz
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.0/pygtk-2.0.0.tar.gz