WxPython versus Tkinter.

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 25 13:15:19 EST 2011


On 1/25/2011 10:29 AM, rusi wrote:
> Just trying to sift the BS from the real issues
>
> Heres a list of the issues relating to GUI toolkits
>
>
> Look
> Nativity-1 (as in apps look like other apps on the OS)
> Nativity-2 (as in uses 'bare-metal' and not a separate interpreter)
> Themeing (ttk)
> Efficiency (extra interpreter)
> Cross Platform
> Stability (crashes on some OSes)
> Programmability
> Accessibility
> i18n
> Availability of gui builder
> Licence

Good as far as it goes, but this list leaves out several requirements 
(already posted by me, Steve Hansen, and others) for a Python 3 new 
stdlib module. It does not matter for the stdlib if wxpython is 3 times 
as good as tkinter, by some measure, as long as it is ineligible.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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