Python – Best library for drawing

Problem And Question

So I’m looking for a pretty basic library in python where I can create a window, and then draw lines and basic shapes on it. Nothing too complex, just nice and simple. I figure there’s lots of libraries out there that can do this, but I don’t know any of them. Can anyone give me some recommendations?

EDIT: Note that there are several answers describing different GUI toolkits with code snippets. Take a look at the various answers for a brief look into the various toolkits.

Best Solution And Answer

I’d definitely recommend pygame. Here is some code that does what you want:

import sys
#import and init pygame
import pygame
pygame.init() 

#create the screen
window = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) 

#draw a line - see http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/draw.html for more 
pygame.draw.line(window, (255, 255, 255), (0, 0), (30, 50))

#draw it to the screen
pygame.display.flip() 

#input handling (somewhat boilerplate code):
while True: 
   for event in pygame.event.get(): 
      if event.type == pygame.QUIT: 
          sys.exit(0) 
      else: 
          print event