Gettin regular Python and JPython to communicate interproces

[Gordon McMillan]

Bob Horvath  wrote:

> ... I am familiar with
> Tk, so Tkinter sounded very interesting until I heard about JPython,
> and was interested in that Swing then becomes an option.  If I can
> learn only one GUI, then Swing would probably be of more use to me,
> as then I could leverage that knowledge when writing Java, or even
> if I wanted to do some JPython applets.
> 
> Are there any pe(a)rls of wisdom any of you could share on the
> benefits of using Tkinter or JPython/Swing?

Swing has memory leaks, is slow and, as Andrew mentioned, is not 
ubiquitous. I've only played with it; this summer I'm supposed to do 
some serious stuff with it. Like much that comes from that company, I 
was impressed with the interface and disappointed in the 
implementation.

I found early versions of Tk good on *nix and horrid on Windows. I'm 
pleased to report that the 8.0 version is a vast improvement, ranking 
towards the top of all alternatives.

- Gordon