GUIs - A Modest Proposal

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Tue Jun 8 10:52:19 EDT 2010


On 2010-06-08, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:

> Since Tk already provides a basic GUI toolset, and Python can interface 
> with it more directly than it can with other toolkits
>(PyGui -> PyGtk -> Gtk -> Xlib),

Compare that to this:

 TkInter -> Tcl -> Tk -> Xlib

> it's not clear to me what is gained by starting from scratch here.
> (Is it the presence of the Tcl interpreter? I know Tcl is not to
> everyone's taste, but it is an amazing language...)

It's not clear to me that Tk is any more "direct" than any of the
other options.

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