Python GUI with Swing

[Luke L]

> If speed is an issue, don't use Swing.  Swing is quite slow (from
> experience) as it is implemented entirely in Java.  If you only need
> to support a single platform you can use Jython+Swing+JNI+C using JNI
> to connect Java to the speed critical stuff written in C.  Otherwise I
> would recommend looking at other toolkits such as PyGTK and wxPython.

Yeah tell me about it...lightweight components are the wrong way to go....
Awt would be a step faster, but that's still using Java of course