Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

Vivian Wang icevi.icevi at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 02:09:45 EDT 2009


On Aug 24, 8:08 pm, Gilles Ganault <nos... at nospam.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>         I was wondering if some people in this ng use Python and some GUI
> toolkit (PyWin32, wxWidgets, QT, etc.) to build professional
> applications, and if yes, what it's like, the pros and cons, etc.
>
> I'm especially concerned about the lack of controls, the lack of
> updates (lots of controls in wxWidgets are 1.0 deadware), and problems
> linked to how to update users' PC remotely when I build a new version
> using eg. Py2exe.
>
> I need controls for business apps like access to databases, good data
> grid, printing reports (with or without barcodes), etc.
>
> Thank you.

On Aug 24, 8:08 pm, Gilles Ganault <nos... at nospam.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>         I was wondering if some people in this ng use Python and some

GUI
> toolkit (PyWin32, wxWidgets, QT, etc.) to build professional
> applications, and if yes, what it's like, the pros and cons, etc.
>
> I'm especially concerned about the lack of controls, the lack of
> updates (lots of controls in wxWidgets are 1.0 deadware), and problems
> linked to how to update users' PC remotely when I build a new version
> using eg. Py2exe.
>
> I need controls for business apps like access to databases, good data
> grid, printing reports (with or without barcodes), etc.
>
> Thank you.

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