wxPython/wxWidgets ok for production use ?

[Stefan Behnel]

Malcolm Greene wrote:
>> My personal experience with wxPython has its ups and downs. Specifically
>> when it comes to crashes, I wouldn't bet my life on it.
> 
> I'm new to Python and getting ready to build a small client based 
> application intended to run on Windows and Linux. I was planning on using
> wxPython until I saw your comment above.

Just to make this sound a bit less like FUD: my last experience with wxPython
dates back a couple of years (2004/5?), but back then, we used BoaConstructor
in a project, which crashed a bit too often to do real work with it - and with
crashing I mean crashing Python, not just showing us its blank traceback. So
this was definitely a problem either in wxWindows or in wxPython.

I have no idea how well it works today, but this has definitely forged my
opinion on wxPython.


> Any suggestions on an alternative Python client-side GUI library (pyQT ?)
> or tips on where I can find out more about wxPython/wxWidget problems?

The only other GUI library I used was PyQT3. To me, it has proven to be very
stable, pretty easy to use and feature rich. And from what I read about it,
PyQT4 is supposed to be another lot better and has removed the few API quirks
I found at the time (AFAIR, it finally returns plain Python strings from the
API, for example).

Stefan