Which GUI Library to Use

[Alex Martelli]

Gustavo Cordova wrote:

> Is designing and making a GUI toolkit a'la Tk,
> with only the most basic stuff written in C
> (native GUI interface, speed stuff, etc) and
> the rest written in Python, doable?

Yes.  Sam Rushing went some way towards
doing it on top of the raw Win32 API's, as one
of the developments of calldll, if I recall correctly.

> I can't help thinking that building something
> like that would be very interesting.

It would no doubt teach you a lot to build it.

> Would it be worth the effort?

I doubt anybody would _use_ it (Python has too
many GUI kits, not too few), but that need not
mean it's not worth to learn by building it anyway.


Alex