Wheel-reinvention with Python

[Terry Reedy]

This sort of intentional obtuseness grates on me too.  Just to let you 
know, this discussion has convinced me to try Dabo, which I knew nothing 
about before.  So your participation has not been useless.  In fact, I 
think I will start with your two-liner below so I can see what I get by 
default and then build from there.

Terry J. Reedy

"Ed Leafe" <ed at leafe.com> wrote in message 
news:200508010817.29171.ed at leafe.com...
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:39, Paul Rubin wrote:

> > import dabo
> > app = dabo.dApp()
> > dApp.start()
> >
> > Sorry, I couldn't do it in 5. ;-) Oh, and that includes a full menu,
> > too.
>
> I get an ImportError exception when I try that. Any suggestions? Note
> that I don't get that exception from Tkinter.
> bash-3.00$ python
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40)
> [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import dabo
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named dabo
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>>

 Oh, c'mon now Paul, now you're trolling. You know exactly what the problem
is, and try to make it look like a bug.

 Fine: you don't want to use anything that doesn't come standard with 
Python.
You've made your point. We get it. There is no need to repeat yourself
constantly.

 The only point of my post was that for those without your aversion to
installing useful tools, Dabo provides a ton of functionality. Also, as my
partner Paul McNett pointed out, I could have done it in *two* lines:

import dabo
dabo.dApp().start()

;-)

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