On 31 Jul 2005 10:07:52 -0700, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ed Leafe wrote: >> On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:02, phil hunt wrote: >> >> > You mightn't have, but I suspect more Python programers who've >> > written GUI apps have used Tkinter than any of the other APIs. >> > >> > Not that I'm a particular fan of it, it's just I like >> > standardisation, because then you get network effects. >> >> At PyCon DC 2004, Guido was asked about wxPython: "wxPython is the best and >> most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The >> only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter >> was there first." > >Maybe. But Guidos intention with Python was to create a secondary >language originally - an extension language of C - ( unlike Java that >was concepted as a radically platform independent language and a >successor of C++ ).
These days you can almost think of C++ as a secondary language to Python: code the app in Python and then optimise by recoding the bits that need speed in C++. >Some other people already abandoned Python not for the worst reasons: > >http://www.kevin-walzer.com/pivot/entry.php?id=69 > >My objection with wrappers around wrappers around wrappers is that I >have no hope ever watching the ground. If some error occurs, which >layer has to be addressed? Good point. -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
