# Taurus (Python GUI library)

Intended audience: developers, Programming language: python

Taurus is a Python framework for control and data acquisition CLIs and GUIs in scientific/industrial environments. It supports multiple control systems or data sources: Tango Controls, EPICS, spec… New control system libraries can be integrated through plugins.

For non-programmers: Taurus allows the creation of fully-featured GUI (with forms, plots, synoptics, etc) from scratch in a few minutes using a “wizard”, which can also be customized and expanded by drag-and-dropping elements around at execution time.

For programmers: Taurus gives full control to more advanced users to create and customize CLIs and GUIs programmatically using Python and a very simple and economical API which abstracts data sources as “models”.

Taurus - based on Python and PyQt or PySide. Widely used by the Python and other communities.

Download taurus from PyPi. Source code is on GitHub.

You can find its full documentation here.