GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/23/2020 12:52 PM, John Pote wrote:
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> On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote:
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>>> I think that commercial desktop applications with a python
>>> compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof.
>> Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI application
>> development, I would probably put Qt first.  Then gobject or
>> wx. Tkinter would probably be last.
> 
> I've used tkinter and wxPython occasionally in the past for 1 off test 
> tasks (and interest). What's the advantage of Qt?

For you usage, perhaps None.  Qt is an *application* framework that 
includes a GUI module likely bigger than tkinter.  Its non-GUI parts 
replace things other than tkinter in the stdlib or on pypi.

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Terry Jan Reedy