How come wxPython isn't in the standard library?

StvB mesteve_bpleaseremovethis at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 6 10:26:20 EST 2004


I had that 'problem' a couple of times, but it was just a matter of writing 
my code more cohesively and organizing my exception hierarchy so that 
certain exception clauses cover a more narrow range of code, and catch a 
more wide range of exceptions.

>
> I haven't used WxPython for a little while, but not long ago (less than a 
> year) it was dreadfully easy to crash a program if even a little mistake 
> happened. Add to that that WxPython prigram will silently eat any 
> unexpected exceptions, and you get a very hard to debug situation.
>
> For me, this would sisqualify wxPython as a standard Library component.
>
>
> Steve 





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