PyGTK or wxPython (not a flame war) on Windows

Jarek Zgoda jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl
Fri Jul 22 16:05:51 EDT 2005


TPJ napisał(a):

> In the nearest future I will have to decide what to use: PyGTK or
> wxPython. I like those both APIs. wxPython has more widgets, but PyGTK
> seems to be faster. I can use them both for free (it's very important).
> My only concern is that although I'm doing development on Linux, I'd
> like to make my application runnable on Windows as well (Py2Exe). I'd
> like to choose PyGTK (because of its rich documentation), but I'm not
> sure if PyGTK is stable on Windows... For now I know that wxPython runs
> well on Windows.
> 
> For now I haven't experienced any problems with wxPython on Linux
> (Slackware, Aurox /Polish RH-like distro/). I used wxPython on Linux,
> but I stopped because of its poor documentation (mainly C++ docs, not
> Python docs). But recently I noticed this documentation got better
> (*much* better!).
> 
> How well does PyGTK run on Windows (98, 2K, XP)? How stable is it? Will
> I be able to make an executable (using Py2Exe) of an application that
> uses PyGTK?

PyGTK runs reasonably well on Win32, although not as good as wx. On 
linux situation is reversed -- wx runs acceptably well, in contrast to 
PyGTK which works like a charm.

PyQt works equally well on both systems.

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Jarek Zgoda
http://jpa.berlios.de/



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