How is GUI programming in Python?

[Steve Holden]

Michel Bouwmans wrote:
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> Mike Driscoll wrote:
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>> On Apr 10, 12:05 pm, Michel Bouwmans <mfb.chikaz... at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Paul Rubin wrote:
>>>> Chris Stewart <cstewart... at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> I've always had an interest in Python and would like to dabble in it
>>>>> further.  I've worked on a few very small command line programs but
>>>>> nothing of any complexity.  I'd like to build a really simple GUI app
>>>>> that will work across Mac, Windows, and Linux.  How painful is that
>>>>> going to be?  I used to be really familiar with Java Swing a few years
>>>>> ago.  I imagine it will be similar.
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Next, what would you say is the best framework I should look into?
>>>> If by "best" you mean "easiest", that is probably tkinter, which
>>>> comes with python.  It is somewhat rudimentary and the widgets that
>>>> come with it don't look so great.  But if you just want to put up
>>>> GUI's with basic functionality and not much glitz, it is ok for most
>>>> such purposes.
>>>> out how to use
>>> I don't quite agree with you on this. Tkinter may be easy because it is
>>> available by standard in Python, but that's about it in my opinion. The
>>> API, look and performance hit is horrible. You're much better of with
>>> PyQt4 which makes the job really simple.
>>>
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>> I see a lot of people recommend using pyQt, but they never mention the
>> controversy that surrounds its licensing. There have been many posts
>> on the subject already, but if the OP ever decides to sell anything
>> they create, I've heard that QT's licensing is kind of squirrelly.
>> Maybe this has been straightened out?
>>
>> I looked at the website and found it fairly confusing. And don't you
>> need to download QT itself?
>>
>> Mike
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> Yeah, the licensing of Qt is either be open-source (under one of the
> Qt-exception licenses licenses so no exclusivity for the GPL anymore) or
> pay for the commercial version. So yes, if you would like to sell it as
> closed-source software you will need to buy the commercial version of Qt
> and PyQt. In other words: you will have to pay twice. Don't forget that you
> can also sell open-source software, so you don't have to pay. ;)
> 
I don't think PyQt has any licensing restrictions to speak of, only the 
underlying Qt platform (though it's a while since I looked).

regards
  Steve
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