[Q] Python, GUI, and Java

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

"Young-Jin Lee" <ylee12 at uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:sAj57.1758$oz3.22749 at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu...
> Hi, all.
> I'm new to Python. I heard many applause on Python, especially ease
of
> programming, and I want to use Python. I read the python tutorial on
the
> python home page, but it didn't have all I wanted to know.
> From my first expression on Python, it is better for server side
> programming. Can I use Pythong to develop a client application with a
GUI?
> It looks like I should you Tkinter. How powerful is it? How easy is
it?
> And is there any way to connect Python application and Java
application? I
> have been developing a Java application (it's quite large) and I
don't want
> to rewrite it with JPython.
You should really take a deep look at PyQt,
http://www.thekompany.com/projects/pykde/index.php3?dhtml_ok=1
In my experience Qt is the best toolkit ever, regardlesss of
language/platform,
together with Python its a breeze to do GUI apps.