Don't understand wxPython ids

[Christopher Barker]

Greg Ewing wrote:

> Use of a number here seems to be entirely the result
> of blindly carrying over a feature of the C++-oriented
> API into Python.

Honestly, that's exactly what it is. wxPython is a wrapper around a VERY 
large C++ toolkit. It uses SWIG to create wrappers that pretty much 
match the C++ API. This has had two big advantages:

1) Robin Dunn could actually get it working in a relatively short period 
of time

2) the docs match as well, so We had a pretty complete (if confusing) 
set of docs from the beginning

Note that neither of these has anything to do with what a good Python 
API is, but I don't think we'd have wxPython at all if Robin had set out 
to make the best API he could.

FWIW, wxPython is slowly growing more "pythonic" wrappers. There are 
also a couple of efforts to make another layer between wxPython and the 
user:

PythonCard
Wax
MindWrapper

Of these, PythonCard is probably the farthest along.

-Chris

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