GUI Frameworks in Python?

Peter Hickman peter at semantico.com
Tue Mar 30 08:06:41 EST 2004


Hugh Macdonald wrote:
> I've recently been trying out various different GUI frameworks in Python and
> was wondering if I could get your input on the pros and cons of the
> different ones...
> 
> wxPython: I love the programming side of wxPython, but I find it's just so
> slow to initialise in the first place.

Not noticed this myself but I would like to add here that wxPython is 
wonderfully portable. I have run wxPython apps on my OSX machine that 
were developed exclusively on a Windows machine without any problems.

Portability is my biggest concern when writing GUI code so I would push 
for wxPython.



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