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 >= 1.14 (the 1.13 git snapshot present in Ubuntu 14.04 works as well) 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