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# Taurus (Python GUI library)

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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: {term}`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](https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro)
or [PySide](http://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/).
Widely used by the Python and other communities.

Download taurus from [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/taurus/).
Source code is on [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus).

You can find its full documentation [here](https://taurus-scada.org/).

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