Why Tcl/Tk

[Cliff Wells]

On Friday 14 September 2001 14:50, Janos Blazi wrote:
> My question has probably been discussed for ages. Why uses Python Tcl/Tk as
> de facto GUI toolkit?
> I think that both GTK+ and Qt are generally considered more powerful than
> Tcl/Tk and I was very much surprised that in fact bindings for both
> libraries exist for Python.

Because Tkinter is the most portable (or at least the most widely ported).  
Probably the next best candidate (with regards to portability) would be 
wxPython (which BTW uses GTK+ on Linux).

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