beginners choice: wx or tk?

[Ian Kelly]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> I want to start a project with python.
>> The program must have a (simple) GUI and must run on Linux and Windows.
>> The last one as standalone executable, created with pyinstaller.
>
> Not sure what your advantage is with pyinstaller, it adds a level of
> complication that doesn't usually justify itself IMO.
>
>> I have already an implementation in perl/tk :
>> http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/ZAcXSugp/schwuppdiwupp.png
>> http://fex.belwue.de/download/schwuppdiwupp.pl
>>
>> I am not really happy with tk, because it has some bugs, at least its perl
>> integration. I have never used wx.
>>
>> What is the recommendation for a python beginner: wx or tk?
>
> Using wxPython means you need another library, while tkinter comes
> with Python. There are some limitations to tk, and I personally don't
> like its style, but if you're wanting to package it up into an EXE,
> every third-party library you add will increase the size of that EXE,
> potentially quite significantly (wxPython will drag in everything that
> it depends on, which IIRC is quite a bit).

I've worked with wxPython + pyInstaller in the past, and IIRC the
total size of those dependencies (roughly Python + wxPython +
matplotlib + numpy + cx_Oracle + sqlalchemy + pywin32) clocked in at
around 20 MB.