On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:25 AM, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 2:51:32 AM UTC-7, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > There are other choices, too - pygtk/pygobject (GTK) and pyqt (Qt) >> > come to mind >> >> Both create BIG executables, much bigger than with wx or tk. > > I worked with wxPython back when I was using Python 2. I got impatient > waiting for Phoenix when I switched to Python 3, so I started using PyQt as > my GUI. > > I'm happy with PyQt. I haven't created standalone executable files with it, > though. Do they necessarily have to be large? I would think that > well-written import statements would cut down on the file size. Just import > the objects you need, rather than the whole namespace. PyQt is even > organized in sub-modules, apparently to encourage you to refrain from > importing everything. >
If there are submodules that you aren't importing, then it's possible they don't need to be included. But if you just import a few names from a module, you still need the entire module to be included. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
