Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Albert van der Horst]

In article <d9703f77-31a4-42af-aa1d-a4acedbcf507 at d7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com>,
Adam Skutt  <askutt at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jan 14, 5:17=A0pm, Albert van der Horst <alb... at spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
>wrote:
>>
>> I really don't follow that. You need a tremendous set to write gimp.
>> Obviously you won't write gimp in Python.
>>
>
>You need a tremendous set to write /the majority of the applications
>on your computer/.
>
>On my desktop right now, I have running:
>* Google Chrome
>* TweetDeck
>* PuTTY
>* Pidgin
>* Game for Windows Launcher
>* Free Download Manager
>* Steam Client
>* A Windows Control Panel Window
>
>None of those applications could be written with his proposed widget
>set, he's literally 0/7 on running applications.  If the situation
>isn't the same on your computer then your application usage is highly
>unusual or you don't understand what widgets are used to construct
>your applications.  You've just told me that Python would no longer be
>suitable for constructing the majority of GUI applications on the
>planet.

We are not talking about running applications, but about writing
applications.
I count 4000+ .py files in my /usr/share alone on Ubuntu.
Your set is totally unrepresentative for those scripts.

>Adam

Groetjes Albert

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