How is GUI programming in Python?

Marlin Rowley marlin_rowley at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 15 22:44:49 EDT 2008


Hmm.. I'm just now learning wxPython and it's very very easy to me.  Perhaps because I've delved into other GUI APIs like GLUT and Windows DirectX.  Programming in C++ seems a pain when coming from Python.  I'll let you know more when I delve more into it.
 
-M



> From: lxlaurax at gmail.com> Subject: Re: How is GUI programming in Python?> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:17:31 -0700> To: python-list at python.org> > On 11 abr, 20:31, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:> > On Apr 11, 5:01 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>> > wrote:> >> > > Another annoying thing with the Qt license is that you have to choose it> > > at the very start of the project. You cannot develop something using the> > > open source license and later decide to switch to the commercial licence> > > and buy it.> >> > Trolltech is afraid companies will buy one licence when the task is> > done, as oppsed to one license per developer. In a commercial setting,> > the Qt license is not expensive. It is painful for hobbyists wanting> > to commercialize their products.> > I have no experience with GUI programming in Python, but from this> discussion it seems if the type of license is not an issue (for FOSS> development), PyQt is the best tool because it is:> (a) easier to learn and intuitive for programming (this is important> to me; I am not that smart...);> (b) more stable (although many people have said that wxPython is as> stable as any other GUI nowadays; but not more stable (wx) than> others);> (c) more cross-platform (many people complain that they have to do a> lot of things in wxPython for the cross-platform).> > Is (a) and (c) true or not? If so, how big are these advantages?> > The great advantage of wxPython seems to be the huge community of> users and the large number of widgets/examples/applications available.> > Reformulating my question:> > Which GUI tool, wxPython or PyQt, is more pythonic? (Please, ignore> the license issue because I am thinking about FOSS)> > Laura> -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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