On 6 Jul, 13:45, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > 1. Turn your C program into a library, and write a Python extension
Note that using ctypes, Cython or Boost.Python is much less painful than using Python's C API directly. > It might, however, be best to simply write the GUI in C as well, which > would avoid the overhead of loading Python and isn't all that difficult > either. If you know C++, check out wxWidgets and Qt4. To stick with > plain C, have a look at GTK+. You will hardly notice the overhead of loading Python. (It's not Java...) Also a good GUI builder is far more important than language when it comes to making a GUI. Depending on toolkit my preferences are wxFormBuilder, Qt Designer, GLADE or MS Visual Studio. - wxFormBuilder are beginning to be ok for wxPython development without XRC, finally. - PyQt has licensing issues, although Qt is LGPL. PySide is still incomplete. - GLADE/PyGTK has issues on Windows (e.g. need to supply a GTK+ run- time). - Visual Studio can be used for IronPython .NET and native MFC (pywin32 has MFC bindings). - tkinter generally sucks (tedious to use, looks bad). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
