Don't understand wxPython ids

[Matt Brubeck]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote in message news:<408ed938$0$17263$a1866201 at newsreader.visi.com>...

> You're supposed to just make up unique id numbers for objects
> when a) they've already got unique id numbers [at least the id
> builtin thinks so] and b) they've got names that make things
> even more readable?

"Wax" is a wxPython wrapper under development at:

    http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/
    http://zephyrfalcon.org/weblog/arch_Wax.html

Wax has a much more Pythonic API than wxPython, and gets rid of the
numeric IDs completely.  For example:

    b = Button(parent, "Save", onsave)

Alternately:

    b = Button(parent, "Save")

    # ...

    b.OnClick = onsave

Here's a longer snippet from the Wax primer:

    def CreateMenu(self):
        menubar = MenuBar()
        
        menu1 = Menu(self)
        menu1.Append("&New", self.New, "Create a new file")
        menu1.Append("&Open", self.Open, "Open a file")
        menu1.Append("&Save", self.Save, "Save a file")
        
        menubar.Append(menu1, "&File")
        
        self.SetMenuBar(menubar)