On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Noble Bell <nobleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > My requirements will be: > 1. Needs to be portable across platforms with native LAF (Windows,Linux,OSX)
The Python standard library includes the tkinter package, which is an interface to Tcl/Tk. The 'ttk' module provides themed/themable widgets that have the platform-native look by default. I've successfully used tkinter for a few projects, and have kept most of my sanity :). One of the biggest benefits to tkinter is that, since it is included with Python, so you don't have to distribute a separate GUI toolkit. > 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me better in the future? Python 3 is the future of Python, but Python 2(.7) is still alive and kicking. I would suggest sticking to Python 3 if at all possible, but revert back to 2.7 (no farther! :) if you have dependencies that you can't escape that rely on Python 2. If you're just learning Python, learn with Python 3 before you start with Python 2, even if you'll wind up using Python 2. Python 3 is easier to learn in the first place, and it's easier to learn the transition from 3->2 than 2->3. Hope this helps, -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
