Visual Basic - Python compare

[andrew cooke]

komodo has a gui builder these days (don't know how good it is).
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/more_information.plex

andrew

David Bolen said:

> fcslka at yahoo.com (Kent) writes:
>
>> 7.  In the interest of being honest, Python support in development
>> tools is weak.  There are many IDEs for Python, most of which are
>> immature, or are Python-only.  What needs to happen is for full
>> support of Python to be built into existing IDEs.  There's Visual
>> Studio .NET support, but boy, it's expensive.  NetBeans and Eclipse
>> could really help us out here if we could get more than just cursory
>> support for Python in those otherwise great environments.
>
> At the risk of over-emphasizing this aspect, I do think that the OP
> needs to consider this when it comes to replacing a VB environment
> with Python, particularly when it sounds like the application is
> already fairly well separated into back-end logic (the C++ COM
> objects) and front end UI (the VB code).
>
> I'd completely agree that in a pure language comparison, there's very
> little to recommend VB over Python.  However, to the extent that you
> are really comparing the RAD for VB development and/or its ability to
> design and implement the UI (and only the UI) for a system, the
> comparison is a lot closer.
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