Is pwm Python MegaWidgets viable?

[Paul Watson]

gregarican wrote:
> Paul Watson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does pwm run well on Python 2.4?  The last release appears to be in
>>2003.  The Manning discussion forum is dead.
>>
>>Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?
>>
>>
>>Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
>>Python distro?  A requirement here is to not require download/install of
>>anything other than the Python release.
> 
> 
> I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty
> extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself
> offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and
> there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter
> that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter
> that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic
> Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from
> scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple
> of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's
> stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any
> new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in
> any event. Just icing on the cake :-)

Many thanks for your reply.  I was setting out to make use of the 
Manning book by Grayson.  Perhaps I should just use online tutorial and 
such for learning plain-old tk first.  However, I have heard good things 
about the book.  Just trying to use what was already at hand.