Tk vs wxPython ?

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Wed Jun 4 13:19:00 EDT 2003


Aurélien Géron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new here, so maybe this is a debate that has been going on already. 

This was certainly discussed in the past.

> If that's the case, please ignore this post...

Negative. [1]

> ** Why isn't Python shipped with wxPython instead of Tk ? **

(1) Historical reasons. Tkinter was there earlier.

(2) Cross-platform reasons. Tkinter runs on more platforms than wxPython 
does.

> [Aurélien likes wxPython]
> Any comments on this ? Anyone else want to vote ?

I vote for the status quo.

-- Gerhard

[1] I play too much UT2003 recently.






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