On 2007-05-24, Brian Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to ask the Python community about this, because it > seems to me that there is a real need that is not being met > very effectively. [...] "...but wx is written in C++ and > definitely shows, even in the Python port". It's just not > very pythonic. > > Then there is Dabo, which I personally have had problems with. > [...]
I haven't tried Dabo, so I can't comment. > Finally, consider wax (http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/wax.html). > In my view, this is *exactly* what python needs, and its not > being maintained anymore as far as I can tell. What I like > about it is: > > 1) it is small...I can include the entire wax distribution in > my app with only a 780k footprint. > > 2) it is a very thin layer on wx, so when something doesn't > quite work, I can immediately fall back onto wx, mixing and > matching wax and wx objects. it's just that the wax > objects have more pythonic calling and use properties I did try wax, and I liked it. It seemed much more "Pythonic" than bare wxPython, and resulted in cleaner, easier-to-read code. When I tried it, it was still early in its development, and there were still parts of it that needed to be fleshed out (a lot of stuff was still unwrapped). I contributed a little bit of code (wrapping one or two more things), but I didn't have enough time at that point to wrap and debug all the things I needed, so I switched back to plain wxPython (I had a mixture of wax and wx for a little while, but I that annoyed me too much). > Is there a reason that the port of wxPython doesn't include > wax, or something similar? It would seem pretty > straightforward, when porting the wx to Python, to simply > include such a wrapper. I wish I were more clever, and had > more time, to take over the maintenance of wax because I think > it is the most straightforward, practical, and pythonic > solution out there. > > Do others think like me here? Yes. I thought wax was a good idea, and there was a a good start on an implementation. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! My nose feels like a at bad Ronald Reagan movie ... visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
