On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > thushiantha...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am planning to develop a chatting software in Python, for my college >> project. I am using Windows Vista. Is it possible to do sockets >> programming in Python ? Any books or websites ? Also, i want to >> develop a gui for that program. What are the gui tool kits available >> for windows? I already knew about PyGtk and PyQT, but will they work >> properly in Windows platform? Any suggestions? >> >> Thank you. Excuse my English. >> >> >> > You're asking two very distinct questions, and I hope others will chime in, > especially with the sockets one. > > 1) There is a module called socket, for low level BSD socket access, and > it does support Windows (plus Mac OSX, BeOS, OS/2, and "all modern Unix" > No experience with it, however. > > 2) There is tkInterf supplied with Python to do GUI development. However, > when I studied the choices I knew about, I picked wxPython. I don't even > remember the other choices, because it's hard to learn more than one. > > see: http://www.python.org/ > and http://wiki.wxpython.org/ > > Both totally free, and with very easy (msi) installers for Windows. > > Watch out for versions, though. If you're goin to run wxPython, you want > to get Python 2.5x or 2.6x, nothing later. And many say that wxPython for > 2.5x is more stable, > Then when you download wxPython, you need to get the matching version. >
There was a problem with manifest files in the original Python 2.6 with wxPython (Python switched to using Visual Studio 2008, wxPython was still using an older version). I think they have most of the kinks worked out now. > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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