best GUI toolkit for python: tkinter, wxPython or what?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Oct 31 06:48:44 EST 2003


"Leo" <leo.broska at NOSPAM.isys.com.au> writes:

> "Tim Ronning" <tim.ronning at start.no> wrote in message
> news:mailman.251.1067537054.702.python-list at python.org...
> 
> > I myself is a novice in this game. But I couldn't help myself, so in
> > paralell with learning the basics I fetched the Eric IDE, PyQt wrapper and
> > the latest QT. Within minutes I was actually generateing really nice UI's.
> > And the best thing of all, just compile your forms from within ERIC and,
> > voila you have a python script including all the QT stuff. This is RAD.
> 
> sounds great. on what platform are you developing? i'd develop manily on mac
> os x
> 
> and what are the needed _runtime_ modules (iguess pyqt and qt)? i'm not sure
> if tehy are available on mac and win (my target platforms).

I don't think PyQT is there on the Mac yet (might be wrong).  If
you're on Mac OS X and not totally wedded to having the same code run
on Mac and Windows you could do the Mac interface using PyObjC and the
Windows interface using whatever works there.  PyObjC totally rules.

Cheers,
mwh

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