newbie question (gui programming)

Mark Nenadov mnenadov at stclairc.on.ca
Sat Aug 4 13:42:38 EDT 2001


In article
<20010804.134859.653468858.2692 at d150-169-166.home.cgocable.net>, "Mark
Nenadov" <mnenadov at stclairc.on.ca> wrote:

> In my experiences wxPython is more powerful of a GUI library. I think
> wxPython is much more modern. However, there are tradeoffs. Tkinter is
> supplied with most Python distributions, while wxPython is not.
> Performance wise, I would guess that wxPython is faster than Tkinter
> because it doesn't have to go through the intermediate step of "Tcl". I
> have found that working with the wxPython API was much nicer than
> Tkinter, but your experience may vary :)

One more thing, in my limited experience, I have found it easier to find
helpful documentation on wxPython.

-- 
"Son, is that spagetti on your screen, or is it Perl code?" - Anon.

~Mark Nenadov (author/editor for http://www.coffeecode.com)



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