Wheel-reinvention with Python

phil hunt zen19725 at zen.co.uk
Tue Aug 2 03:37:05 EDT 2005


On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:42:53 -0400, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>zen19725 at zen.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
>> In practise any Python GUI is going to contain code from otyher 
>> languages since if it was coded all the way down in python it would 
>> be too slow.
>
>Not necessarily. My window manger is Python all the way down

Your X server is written in Python? :-)

> - it uses
>the Python Xlib implementation - and is plenty fast.
>
>Of course, it doesn't do a lot of graphics work, even for a window
>manager.

That's what I mean: painting the individual pixels on the screen.

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