True standard Windows app in Python?

[Alan Gauld]

On 29 Dec 2003 15:35:56 +0200, Ville Vainio
<ville.vainio at spamster_tut_remove.fi> wrote:
> Thomas Dorn <thomas.dorn at phreaker.net> writes:
> > In your situation (i.e. trying to build a Windows application which
> > is "standard in every conceivable way"), I would not use Python. 
> Doesn't using the mfc library (like PythonWin does) enable creating
> applications that are "standard in every conceivable way"?

No, there are several things that you can do using the Win32 API
that you can't do with MFC. Also winall doesn't expose all of MFC
(last time I looked, although it does do the 80%(95%!) that you
need most.

This is especially true when you start to get into controlling
strange peripheral devices etc. MFC is great for standard
business type apps but it is not 100% complete win32 coverage.

Alan G.
Author of the Learn to Program website
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld