WxPython versus Tkinter.

CM cmpython at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 14:40:05 EST 2011


On Jan 25, 2:33 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:16 AM, CM <cmpyt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another interesting issue in this is mobile phone app development.  It
> > is frustrating to devote a lot of time to learning a desktop widget
> > toolkit and Python and while that is occurring the culture moves more
> > and more toward app use in which that is not too applicable.  Some of
> > that cannot be helped if Apple, e.g., restricts what can be used on
> > their phones.  I guess for Android one can already develop with PyQt
> > and it will run on desktop or phone?
>
> No. It's very difficult to do real development on android unless
> you're using Java, and even if that weren't the case Qt itself would
> require an enormous effort to port. Perhaps you meant MeeGo?

I think insted of Android I should have said "Nokia phones".  Is that
closer?  I am completely out of the mobile phones loop, so I have no
sense of any of this.  What is MeeGo?

At this point, can Python be used for app development on any mobile
phone (realistically)?

Thanks.



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