Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 19:12 CEST schreef Gary Herron: > On 04/26/2015 09:32 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 17:09 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano: >> >>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:02 pm, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>> >>>> I want to use a GUI for Python. When searching I found (beside >>>> some others) Tkinter and wxPython. From what I found it looks >>>> like Tkinter is slightly better. What would be the pros/cons of >>>> these two? Would there be a compelling reason to use another GUI? >>> Tkinter is easier to use, as it is standard with Python. So long >>> as you have Tk/Tcl installed on your computer, Tkinter should work >>> fine. >>> >>> However, Tkinter probably looks a bit more old fashioned. >>> >>> wxPython probably looks a bit more modern and may be a bit more >>> powerful, but it will require a large extra library. It's also a >>> lot harder to learn to use wxPython unless you are comfortable >>> with C++ programming. >> Well, I did my share of C++ programming. ;-) >> >> >>> Have you seen this? >>> >>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming >> Dabo looks interesting, but also a little bit dead. Well, maybe I >> just should evaluate Tkinter and wxPython both. Now wxPython looks >> more interesting. But it is easier to make a reasonable decision >> when I have a little more information. :-D >> >> For the moment I limit it to Tkinter and wxPython. > > I wouldn't recommend limiting yourself like that. I've used both > successively (years ago), then pyGTK for a batch of projects, > followed by pyglet for some years and many projects, and most > recently PyQt. They are all worthy GUI programming libraries, and > each of them is cross platform (as I required to develop on Linux, > but deploy occasionally on Windows).
I did say for the moment. ;-) But just curious: what is the reason you use five different kinds of GUI? It seems like it makes think difficult for you. I mean the question as enlightenment for myself. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
