Wheel-reinvention with Python

Cliff Wells cliff at develix.com
Sun Jul 31 14:48:48 EDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 00:23 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> zen19725 at zen.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
> > What you say Pythonic, what do you mean? And how do you rate 
> > Tkinter, PyGtk, PyQt/PyKDE, wxWindows for "Pythonicness"? 
> 
> Tkinter is not very Pythonic because it's sort of a Frankenstein
> hybrid of Python and Tcl, but at least it's there and it more or less
> works.  The others are non-Pythonic because they're not included in
> the standard distro and therefore the Pythonic "use the included
> batteries" tenet says to use Tkinter despite its flaws.

Am I to assume that you don't use *any* third party libraries?   

As far as the "use the included batteries" tenet... has Python changed
from a programming language to a cult in the few months I've been off
the list?  Where are these "tenets"?  I've never heard such nonsense.

Cliff


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