RM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you say is true. However, I didn't think the target audience of > this book was newbies. Python newbies yes, but not programming > newbies. For programming newbies I would recommend the "Learning > Python" book instead.
Sure (or any of the other excellent tutorials, including "Python Programming for Absolute Beginners"). Such tutorials' coverage of GUI programming tends to be scarce, though; and moreover, programmers often come to Python, from other languages, without skills directly applicable to programming a GUI in Python (as opposed to, say, just painting the GUI with a tool, as QT Designer or wxGlade may let you do). Any GUI programming skills that may exist can be Tk-related more often than one might think... or maybe that's just my own biased observations, people coming to Python from previous experience with perl or tcl, but I've known quite a few of those. > The availability argument, however, is a good point. It has its importance, yes. If you want to replace the de facto Python standard GUI toolkit with wx, gtk or whatever, having an IDLE-or-better equivalent using your favourite toolkit, and managing to sneak it into the std Python distro, would be the way to go;-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
