On Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:06:29 UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:49 AM, <wrong.addres...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks. You have guided me quite well, and I am almost ready to declare > > that I will use Python for the next few decades. > > > > Don't declare like that - just start using it, and see what you think > :) But I would be very much surprised if Python doesn't get added to > your toolbelt. A good programmer should always keep a selection of > tools handy - seldom is one tool the right one for every job. > > > Imagine I want to read in two (or a few) numbers from a text file, display > > them in two (or more) text boxes, calculate their sums and products, may be > > take logarithms of them, and display them in other two text boxes or > > labels, and make some bar charts, scatter plots, and later draw curves and > > surfaces on a computer screen. Do I really need PyPi or other external > > stuff for this? Is Python well equipped for this? > > > > You could do all of that with just the standard library, but then your > only choice of GUI library is Tkinter, which is derived from Tcl/Tk. > If you don't like how that looks (either in your code, or in the > resulting GUI), you'll need to turn to PyPI for an alternative (eg > something derived from GTK or wxWindows or Qt). I'm not sure how the > graphing capabilities of Tkinter are, so you might want to grab > matplotlib too - again, it'll give you a lot more flexibility than you > would have if you restrict yourself to *just* the standard library. > But I think you could do all of that - certainly most of it - with > just the language and standard library. >
What do I lose by using an external library? Bigger size of the *.exe is not a problem, neither is speed an issue. It might even be easier to learn with these external libraries, and produce more readable code. > > I will have to learn GUI creating quickly after I know the basics of > > reading and writing text files, and doing simple mathematical calculations. > > > > Reading and writing text files is easy, as is basic mathematics. > You'll have that down in an hour or two, most likely, and then you'll > have time to play GUIs. That is good. > > > Later I can imagine using things like sending an SMS from a phone running > > this on Android, or placing a graph in a WhatsApp message, make a call to > > someone and tell him the temperature is now too high, etc. These things > > might need external libraries, but I can learn this later on. > > > > Those things will most likely require external libraries. But most of > them are probably possible. > > ChrisA Thanks again for your input. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
