[melbourne-pug] GUI libaries for Python

[Peter Georgeson]

My experience with Tkinter and wxPython.

To mainly agree with Richard and Tennessee...
Tkinter is quick, easy and included, but only includes a very basic widget set.
It's a bit of work if you want to do anything complicated, and doesn't have the nicest look and feel.

wxPython is very complete with loads of widgets, and looks good, but a little more work to get up and running with.
There's also a pretty good GUI builder for wxPython (Glade).
I would choose wxPython over Tkinter if the GUI needs to look slick, or you want a complete widget set.

Haven't used PyQt.

Pete

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> Last night at the MPUG meeting I asked which GUI libaries people 
> recomended.  There were two mentioned:  PyQt and TkInter.
> 
> I remembered the name of the one i had started to look at which was 
> WxPython which appears to be quite nice,  from a non programers point of 
> view.   The gui stuff I am investigating is for my thesis data gathering 
> and as such is really only goign to be used within a Windows environment.
> 
> But where does WxPython stand compared to PyQt and TkInter with the MPUG 
> members?  Is it an "actually thats good also"  or is it classed as 
> "seriously dont do it to yourself" ?
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> Thoughts?
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> Regards,
> David Crisp
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:34:59 +1100
> From: Tennessee Leeuwenburg <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com>
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> We've moved from Tkinter to PyQt. WxPython looks workable, but we chose PyQt
> at the best for us at the time. Tkinter is usable but we found it to be
> pretty nasty. But it works and it is everywhere...
> 
> Cheers,
> -T
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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, David Crisp <dcrisp at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> Last night at the MPUG meeting I asked which GUI libaries people
>> recomended.  There were two mentioned:  PyQt and TkInter.
>> 
>> I remembered the name of the one i had started to look at which was
>> WxPython which appears to be quite nice,  from a non programers point of
>> view.   The gui stuff I am investigating is for my thesis data gathering and
>> as such is really only goign to be used within a Windows environment.
>> 
>> But where does WxPython stand compared to PyQt and TkInter with the MPUG
>> members?  Is it an "actually thats good also"  or is it classed as
>> "seriously dont do it to yourself" ?
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> David Crisp
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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, David Crisp <dcrisp at netspace.net.au> wrote:
>> Last night at the MPUG meeting I asked which GUI libaries people recomended.
>> ?There were two mentioned: ?PyQt and TkInter.
>> 
>> I remembered the name of the one i had started to look at which was WxPython
>> which appears to be quite nice, ?from a non programers point of view. ? The
>> gui stuff I am investigating is for my thesis data gathering and as such is
>> really only goign to be used within a Windows environment.
>> 
>> But where does WxPython stand compared to PyQt and TkInter with the MPUG
>> members? ?Is it an "actually thats good also" ?or is it classed as
>> "seriously dont do it to yourself" ?
> 
>> From my experience Qt - and hence PyQt since it Pythonically wraps the
> lovely C++ framework - has a much nicer API design to Wx.
> 
> Tkinter can be a little "nasty" but for quick jobs and those where
> prettiness isn't needed it's perfectly acceptable. I did a whole
> presentation about how Tkinter doesn't suck at Kiwi PyCon last year
> :-) It's around on the tubes somewhere...
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>    Richard
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