[Tutor] Better (free) IDEs than IDLE for Linux ?

[Magnus Lycka]

At 06:25 2002-12-15 -0800, Aztech Guy wrote:

>Do you use wxPython ?

Yes.

>What's your opinion about it vs. PyQt ?

Never used Qt.

I'm not entirely happy with the licence status for Qt on
Windows. It's fairly costly for commercial development.

wxPython is very feature rich. Just download it and run
the demo. (I'm not sure it's included in the RPM if you
run Linux, but it's in the source package and in the
Windows installer.)

It also has weaknesses. It's a C++ library wrapped with
SWIG, and sometimes the C++isms shine though a bit.

It also seems that the C++ toolkit (wxWindows) swings a bit
back and forth between versions in features and quality.

There are some problems related to i18n, particularly non-US
keyboards and grids.


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