Odp: Newbie - No module named stdwin
Simon Bayling
sfb at alysseum.com
Thu Jul 10 08:55:54 EDT 2003
"K" <milyon at wp.pl> wrote in news:bejf32$3on$1 at topaz.icpnet.pl:
> but in visual basic 6 i have graphical Interface - in Python only text
> based is that correct ?
Yes and no... Python only has a text interface, but can access "windowing
toolkits" to allow you to make graphical interfaces.
A lot of languages are like this, e.g. C++, but some have a built-in
windowing toolkit, e.g. Java.
Visual Basic also has its own built-in toolkit - so much so that it is
all you can use, and it is easy to use - which is why it is so popular.
So... yes strictly speaking Python only has a text interface, but that's
not the whole story because you can create graphical interfaces with a
toolkit that usually comes with Python, and it's a very common and
standard thing to do.
However, it requires a different style of programming, which is why the
previous posters are suggesting you avoid it until you are comfortable
with Python.
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/hello-
tkinter.htm#AEN50
Is a link to the most simple "Hello World" application with the toolkit
"Tkinter".
Cheers,
Simon.
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