Fact that makes tkinter the default gui toolkit

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in Python. For convenience we prefer to call Vtk through MayaVi, a high-level interface to Vtk written in Python.

heat = Heat1() # make simulator object

heat.define(menu) # generate input menus

heat.solveProblem()
dp2py = dp2pyfilters() import vtk, mayavi

# solve PDE problem
# copy filters for Diffpack-Vtk-Python # interfaces to Vtk-based visualization

Chapter 6

Introduction to GUI Programming