beginners choice: wx or tk?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 14/07/2015 16:21, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 08:06 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2015-07-14, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/13/2015 08:42 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> If it didn't have to run on Windows, I'd pick pygtk over wx.  I've
>>>> never tried qt.
>>>
>>> PyQt is very nice to work with.  In some respects it's not as Pythonic
>>> as PyGTK.  It feels a lot like transliterated C++ code, which it is.
>>> But it's a powerful toolkit and looks great on all supported platforms.
>>> If the licensing terms of PyQt are not to your liking, PySide is fairly
>>> close to PyQt (a few quirks that can be worked around), though I'm not
>>> sure how much love it's receiving lately.  Like wx, or Gtk, you would
>>> have to ship some extra dlls with your project for Windows and OS X.
>>
>> Why would you have to ship "extra" libraries for Windows?  Extra
>> compared to what?  When I compared bundled apps for Windows using wx
>> and Tk, you had to ship more libraries using Tk than you did with wx.
>> Maybe that's changed...
>
> You make a good point.  Although Tk is considered part of the standard
> Python library (though optional), Tk not only requires some dlls, it
> also embeds the tcl language interpreter as well.  So by some measures,
> Tk in Python is pretty heavy, though I have no idea what the size it
> would add to an application bundle actually is.  I've always thought it
> was a bit crazy how when you use Tk, you're actually using the Tcl
> language as well, even though you're driving it all from Python.  I
> believe there were attempts to separate Tk from Tcl, and allow Perl/Tk
> to replace all the Tcl code with Perl code.
>

Surely if Tk is optional then IDLE is also optional, as IDLE depends on 
Tk?  But I thought that IDLE was always supplied with Python, so am I 
missing something, or am I simply plain wrong, or what?

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Mark Lawrence