Tkinter vs. wxPython

Gerhard Häring gerhard.haering at gmx.de
Fri Jul 19 00:30:23 EDT 2002


Hi d2002xx, if that is indeed your real name.

* d2002xx <d2002xx at yahoo.co.uk> [2002-07-18 21:08 -0700]:
> > My question is this: is there any compelling reason I shouldn't just go
> > with Tkinter instead? I work (for now) exclusively on Win32 boxes, by
> > the way.
> 
> Just compare the number of widgets in wxPython and Tkinter, you will
> find out tkinter is almost useless. I'm wondering why python doesn't
> use wxPython (or PyQT) as default GUI.
 
I personally am currently playing with wxPython, too. But it has its
share of problems, at least the GTK version of it. It can also be a
bitch to build on Unix, especially if you don't read the fine README and
INSTALL.unix docs ;-)

Gerhard
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