pywebview 5 (via) pywebview is a library for building desktop (and now Android) applications using Python, based on the idea of displaying windows that use the system default browser to display an interface to the user—styled such that the fact they run on HTML, CSS and JavaScript is mostly hidden from the end-user.
It’s a bit like a much simpler version of Electron. Unlike Electron it doesn’t bundle a full browser engine (Electron bundles Chromium), which reduces the size of the dependency a lot but does mean that cross-browser differences (quite rare these days) do come back into play.
I tried out their getting started example and it’s very pleasant to use—import webview, create a window and then start the application loop running to display it.
You can register JavaScript functions that call back to Python, and you can execute JavaScript in a window from your Python code.
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