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[Petri Mikael Kuittinen]

tsummerfelt1 at myspleenhome.com (tony summerfelt) writes:

> and i think the following is hard to beat in tcl/tk:
> #!/usr/bin/wish
> button .b -text "Exit" -command {exit}
> pack .b
> 
> to fire up a window with a button on it.
> 
> how does python compare for those two programs?

The following is bad Python code, but should do the same as above:

#!/usr/bin/python
from Tkinter import *
root=Tk()
Button(root, text="Exit", command=root.quit).pack()
root.mainloop()

> think i'll actually pick up the `24 hour python book'...i'm pretty sure i'll
> grok it in less though...

I recommend that you first get "Learning Python" or "Quick Python"
and if you already know TCL/TK and want to learn the Python way
to do it get "Python and Tkinter Programming". They are all excellent
books.


/eye

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