Delphi vs Python

[Enrique]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 07-Feb-2002 Peter Hansen wrote:
> > Bo Vandenberg wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm planning learning strategy and I thought I would ask people who use both
> >> Python and Delphi their opinion.
> >
> > I used Delphi (back in the 3 and 4 days, I think) extensively for several
> > years, and had a lot of respect for the environment and language.  Very
> > productive for me, relatively few bugs (compared to C++ and C, roughly
> > similar to my levels with Java).
> >
> 
> This is mostly a "me too" post.  With the addition of attributes in 2.2 python
> now does almost everything syntactically Delphi does.  I do on occasion miss
> the 'with' keyword, nice bit of sugar that.
> 
> For me what made Delphi nice was how much it abstracted the Window's API away
> and the ease of creating GUI apps by putting things where I wanted.  I have yet
> to find another environment that made good looking apps that fast.  If I could
> have one of those that outputs python code AND was not proprietary I would be
> quite happy.  glade is a very pale comparison.
> 

  Perhaps you should have a look at Boa Constructor. 
	(http://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-constructor/)
It is a RAD IDE and a GUI-builder based on
wxWindows/wxPython.
The declared phylosophy of the author is to get Delphi
working manners (drag-and-drop frame construction etc) into
Python applications.   


> If your goal is to write GUI apps, Delphi may be a good place.  Python is great
> as an all around language and it really can churn out code fast.  On top of
> that you have the interpreter available to you by just running python without a
> script AND it is available to you in your running code (introspection).  Being
> able to quickly test an idea by just firing up python is one of the things I
> love most.  Hell, I even use it as a desk calculator (whoever made '_' return
> the last result -- I love you).

I find the combination Python/wxWindows(wxPython) very
convenient for writing GUIs, and as powerful or more than
Delphi. A progran is not its GUI, and having a good,
powerful, logic behind GUI is essential. Think in how easy
is to manage database connections, or Numeric arrays , or
image manipulation (PIL), with Python.

Enrique