Wheel-reinvention with Python

phil hunt zen19725 at zen.co.uk
Mon Aug 1 03:53:24 EDT 2005


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:02:43 -0400, Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> wrote:
>On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:02, phil hunt wrote:
>
>> You mightn't have, but I suspect more Python programers who've
>> written GUI apps have used Tkinter than any of the other APIs.
>>
>> Not that I'm a particular fan of it, it's just I like
>> standardisation, because then you get network effects.
>
> At PyCon DC 2004, Guido was asked about wxPython: "wxPython is the best and 
>most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The 
>only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter 
>was there first."

I was under the impression -- from reading this ng -- that wx was 
buggy on some platforms and less portable than Tkinter. Not true?

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