Pycairo is a Python module providing bindings for the cairo graphics library.
The Pycairo bindings are designed to match the cairo C API as closely as possible, and to deviate only in cases which are clearly better implemented in a more ‘Pythonic’ way.
Features of the Pycairo bindings:
- Provides an object oriented interface to cairo.
- Queries the error status of objects and translates them to exceptions.
- Provides a C API that can be used by other Python extensions.
Pycairo depends on cairo >= 1.12 and works with Python 2.7+ as well as Python 3.3+. Pycairo, including this documentation, is licensed under the LGPLv2.1 as well as the MPLv1.1.
If Pycairo is not what you need, have a look at cairocffi, which is an API compatible package using cffi or Qahirah, which is using ctypes and provides a more "pythonic" API with less focus on matching the cairo C API.
For more information visit https://pycairo.readthedocs.io
