Still Loving Python

gene tani gene.tani at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 13:02:22 EST 2005


Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
> Il 2005-12-13, Kamilche <klachemin at comcast.net> ha scritto:
> > Python still suffers from the lack of a good GUI, which I believe is
> > slowing its acceptance by the programming community at large. (I know
> > about tKinter, no need to post links to it, thanks.)
>
> Let me say I'm not agree, I'm developing a lot of GUI based stuff in PyGTK
> and I'll never look back. The API is not perfect but suits our needs. I'm
> a Gnome lover and hence having Gnome-style GUIs it's awesome. Add the plus
> that is easy and powerful and you have a good toolkit to work on. I think
> that the same thing can be said about the QT-side (not sure about wx,
> don't like it at all).
>
> Python *does* have GUI, you only have to decide which one you prefer.
>
> ps. the customer wants Windows as a platform, we develop on Linux using
> PyGTK, postgre and sql server for some old data. This is the true power of
> cross-platform :)
>
>
> --
> Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog
> "Anyone can freely use whatever he wants but the light at the end
> of the tunnel for most of his problems is Python"

Here are some surveys of the landscape
http://pythonology.org/howto
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python?kwd=User
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python_GUI_Programming

http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html#gui
http://python.codezoo.com/pub/category/197
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Modules/GUI/




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