Gui Advice Needed: wxPython or PyQT ?

[Peter Hansen]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Very brief experimentation, *and* a look at the demo apps (to note
> > Riccardo's point), were all it took to make me feel this way, and
> > I would actually recommend that *regardless* of the advice of the
> > experts (their accuracy and thoroughness notwithstanding), a new
> > user should still try out both wxPython and PyQT before settling on
> > either.
> 
> Trying out is a good idea -- I tried out literally everything, up to and
> including Amulet -- when I was looking for a toolkit before settling on
> PyQt. However, I must say that it can be quite hard to get the toolkits
> themselves up and running. I still haven't managed to get a working
> wxPython installation on my SuSE systems; even though PyGTK on OS X was a
> breeze (thanks to Fink). PyQt can be a bit of a nut to crack before it
> runs, unless you buy BlackAdder. And even Tkinter isn't always as easy to
> get running.

Sadly, I suppose that is true on some non-Windows systems.  Thankfully
for us luser Windows users :-), the Win32 installers for Python, wxPython,
and most other packages (presumably even PyQT) are effectively capable
of being used by someone without a working brain (like me, some days).
(Huge heaps of kudos here to Mark Hudson, Robin Dunn, and no doubt
some others.)

I recall being quite pleasantly surprised by how I could install wxPython,
click on the Demo icon, and see the huge expanse of available power from
the framework, all running (nearly) flawlessly on my machine.

-Peter