On 06/09/10 01:17, bart.c wrote: > > "Grant Edwards" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:hullf3$hl...@reader1.panix.com... >> On 2010-06-08, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote: >> >>> Since Tk already provides a basic GUI toolset, and Python can interface >>> with it more directly than it can with other toolkits >>> (PyGui -> PyGtk -> Gtk -> Xlib), >> >> Compare that to this: >> >> TkInter -> Tcl -> Tk -> Xlib > > Is the Tcl intepreter really need to use this GUI? Why not: > > (Pyton ->) Tkinter-API -> Xlib ? > > Most of the work of designing a GUI is, well, designing it. That's > already been done for Tkinter so why not just implement the same spec in > Python (with whatever lower-level code is needed). Then extending it > should be simpler. > >>> it's not clear to me what is gained by starting from scratch here. >>> (Is it the presence of the Tcl interpreter? I know Tcl is not to >>> everyone's taste, but it is an amazing language...) > > Some people aren't interested in the amazing language. Only the graphics > API that goes with it.
How about shifting the viewpoint a little bit. Tcl is like regular expression engine and the Tk is like the re API. Much like regex a DSL for matching text, Tcl/Tk is pretty much a DSL for creating GUI (anyone knows any real program fully written in non-embedded Tcl?). Nobody complains that python included a regular expression engine in its standard distribution; so why complain that python included a Tcl expression engine in its standard distribution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
