Tkinter and wxPython

[Robert Amesz]

Timothy Docker wrote:


> I've used both. Here's some points.
> 
>     wxPython
>     --------
>     - Coding errors often show up as SEGV (unix) / app errors (win32)

Talking about Win32, that's not my experience: disregarding the nasty 
COM-bug in the demo (not wxPython's fault anyway, AFAIK), wxPython has 
always struck me as pretty forgiving when horsing around with it.

I once experimented with a handler for paint-events (painting text, 
lines & bitmaps onto a canvas) and errors in that code always produced 
nice tracebacks for each re-paint without crashing or even noticably 
bothering the rest of the app. (Well, my owner-drawn stuff didn't get 
painted, of course, but that was about the size of it.)

Having done a little Windows-programming myself, this impressed me: I 
know from experience how easy it can be to produce nasty crashes.


Robert Amesz